Is Salty B-747-8 Deviating From Flight Plan A Thing?

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On a 3rd attempt from KLAX to KSFO everything starts out perfectly but about half way to SFO the a/c stops following the flight plan route–just proceeds straight ahead. The route shows on the MFD and the VFR map and LNAV is on. As I neared SFO ATC cleared me for an approach and transition to rwy 28R via EDDY even tho I was a few mlles west of the route. Hopefully, I entered that info into the FMC and was elated when the a/c turned toward the fix. As we neared EDDY I switched from LNAV to APPR. Imagine my chagrin when we got to the fix and left turn to final but the a/c flew blithy on straight ahead. At that point I almost took a swing at the co-pilot out of frustration.

Is this a common problem I don’t know about?

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I’ve never had LNAV do that to me before.

But if it helps, generally turning the flight director off and on usually resolves any wonky things the Salty AP does.

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Ah, I didn’t think of that. Thanks!

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A/THR off/on often does miracles too! Haven’t had any problems anymore with lnav/vnav since updating to dev-version via FBW-installer.

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I have never had this problem with the Salty 747. However it does use the default MSFS autopilot

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Halfway, thanks. If I have future problems I’ll try that too.
MDA, I have quite a bit of time with the MSFS autopilot in the A320, A320NX and A330 and have not experienced the kinds of problems I am seeing. I’m gonna try the Dev version.

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Oh I assumed you were on the Dev version. My understanding is that’s the better way to go. Stable versions are very old.

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Switching. :blush:

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And the simbrief-integration with the fms has become quite good too! Taxiing has become way better too.

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i agree. I’ve only had one problem with Simbrief and I don’t remember exactly what it was but enroute the a/c was not following the simbrief flight plan but was going direct to the destination. I just re-requested the flt pln from SB and re-loaded it. That fixed it that time. What I described above was a different situation.