I’ve tried searching but can’t find any way to create a shortcut (key press or joystick button) for Flight Level Control nose up and down. There’s no listing for this in Control Settings. There is a line for toggling FLC on and off, which is great, but that’s it. Am I missing something?
If you are referring to Flight Level Change, FLC or FLCH, there is no up or down: It works either way to change altitude at a constant airspeed which one sets. When engaged, the A/P will command either a climb or descent to the new altitude selected, at the airspeed selected, therefore only one toggle for engaging this mode on the autopilot.
There is up and down: the two buttons next to the FLC button and above the ALT dial, marked ‘NOSE Up’ and ‘NOSE DN’.
Ok which aircraft are we looking at?
Cessna 172 Skyhawk
All that does is increase or decrease the set FLC speed, as Nikita mentioned. For a key binding you need to assign “Increase Autopilot Reference speed” and “Decrease Autopilot Reference speed” to two buttons. Set the speed to the desired V speed as per the POH
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Ok, off the top of my head, you may be looking for something like AUTOPILOT INCREASE REFERENCE ALTITUDE or AUTOPILOT DECREASE REFERENCE ALTITUDE?
The sequence to use FLC is to first dial in the desired altitude. Next you have to enable FLC. Note that, initially when you enable FLC while the AP is on in flight, it will show the current IAS above the air speed tape in the PFD. As you click on the assigned increase or decrease button, this speed will change. For climbing, you obviously have to reduce the set speed from the current speed. The AP will then pitch the aircraft up to attain the set speed.
FWIW: I only use FLC for climbing. For descending, I believe VS is more appropriate.
“Increase Autopilot Reference speed” and “Decrease Autopilot Reference speed”
That’s exactly what I needed, thank you. Very confusing that it makes no reference to what the actual buttons are called.
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That is because the controls are for all aircraft.
There’s 2 ways you can do most functions like this in msfs 2024, you have either the generic all aircraft controls, which sounds like they worked in this case, or sometimes there’s a feature which is not generic enough to be in the “all aircraft” controls set.
In these cases you can map the aircraft specific (“specific” tag) control, which in this case would be the PFD/MFD button for the G1000 in the C172 only.
I confirmed a 172 specific command that works is “PFD AUTOPILOT VERTICAL SPEED UP BUTTON PUSH” (and DOWN button push).
Building on that, you can use the “G1000” profile on all other planes using the G1000…because the G1000 behaviour is shared by all (Asobo) planes.
I went a step further and assigned F1 to F12 as the G1000 MFD softkeys.
One great thing about the FS24 control interface is sharing a profile across a group of planes, in this case all that have a G1000 fitted
That was impossible in 2020, but essential for a consistent G1000 experience.
Many people have dismissed the FS24 control interface, because its like filling in a tax return.
But hang in there, as it can do great things for us.
Not all Asobo planes.
Just the ones with a G1000 Avionics System.
For FS2024, Filter=None and G1000 listed under Instruments and Systems.