G1000 ROL and PIT modes

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I’d like to know if the Sim’s behavior regarding these features are the same in a real aircraft.

I’ll have to check out this again, but I believe that back in FSX if I had ROL and ALT activated in the annunciator, then I could roll as much as I wanted and no need to worry about my altitude.

However, in MSF2020 the plane not only won’t let me roll, if I still roll it with a small bank so the autopilot won’t disengage, as soon as release the yoke, the plane banks horribly bad to the opposite side.

I understand that some planes have a CWS button, which I don’t see in the Cessna aircraft (haven’t check other planes).

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I agree that behavior is annoying, but “steering through” the autopilot would apparently disengage the autopilot in real life (the yoke may even resist such inputs). I don’t know why Asobo implemented it the way they did. Force feedback support?

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Use HDG mode if you want to make lateral changes like that. I also suggest you get the Working Title G1000 NXi from the marketplace.

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First of all you are not supposed to apply force to the controls when the autopilot is engaged, you can’t fly the aircraft through the autopilot. If the aircraft has CWS / TCS it would give you the controls as long as you keep the button pressed, upon release the autopilot takes back the controls and synchs the flight director to the current BANK, PITCH, VS, IAS and maintains it (not sure if MSFS has CWS / TCS).

Some very, very basic autopilots might allow the autopilot to be engaged on only one axis while you control the other axis. Most autopilots don’t, they default to the “basic” ROLL and PITCH hold modes until an “upper” mode is selected. You can only adjust the basic ROLL and / or PITCH mode with CWS / TCS or thumb wheel (for PITCH only).

If you have somehow managed to steer through the autopilot and change the bank angle, the autopilot will steer back to the original bank angle upon releasing control forces. This shouldn’t really be a possibility in the first place though, in real life you won’t be able to move the controls with the autopilot engaged until enough force is applied to trip the autopilot off.

I believe the ROLL mode is bugged in MSFS, at least last time I checked it wasn’t working as it is supposed to.

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