I’m not a pilot, so I’m colbbling togther how to do this autopilot thing. I don’t particularly mind, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to turn on NAV mode. I turn on autopilot and the flight director. I set my nav data to FMS. But, when I press the NAV button, nothing happens. It remains off. What am I missing?
As always, folks, help is always appreciated.
Edit: Autopilot doesn’t actually work right either. I end up way off course, and, when I manually move back to my assigned course, autopilot sends me back to the wrong place.
I’m not a commercial liner user, so others will expertly chime in, but most Lateral Navigation systems require you to be close to the desired track before it kicks in. You may also have had a Manual Sequence (MANSEQ) leg if you selected a Standard Instrument Departure in the plan. That would require you to handfly to the first waypoint on a plotted leg that the FMS can take over.
I tried it again. Same plane, different flight plan. I have pilot and co-pilot NAVDATA set to FMS, but there doesn’t seem to be any FMS data there. When it started “working” the other time, there appeared to be some data (a heading and a speed) next to the FMS on the main display.
Since a few days something is going wrong with MSFS2024.
I have same problem with TBM930. PLN from Simbrief not correctly or partially loaded in Garmin3000, so unable to select NAV mode.
FMS nav selected. When pushing on NAV button, nothing happens and NAV LED staying off.
Sometimes it’s working but rarely !
I have that it works after I toggle it on and off sometimes. I get my aircraft close to the planned flight path and toggle NAV on off and on again. That does work most of the time.
For me, sometimes the Autopilot does not switch on, either. I can reliably fix the issue by pressing the Disconnect Autopilot button on the control stick once, and then pressing the AP button again to switch it on.
FYI for the occasions where you are not close enough to the NAV path to activate NAV mode, you can scroll the heading bug to intercept the NAV path, start the autopilot in HDG mode and when heading mode is active press the NAV button. The NAV mode (i.e. GPS) will then show in the autopilot bar next to the green HDG in white, small letters, indicating that it will automatically arm once close enough to the NAV path.
I have the same problem. Can’t use the NAV button. I know I could use it in MSFS2020 but not in 2024.
I do place the aircraft near the track using HDG but it doesn’t work. Have to continue the flight using the HDG button.
I know in MFSF2020 when I hit the NAV button it would follow it. But not in MSFS2024. Need to set HDG and continuously change heading when going off tack.
Wondering if this is a bug or I am doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I find that if I have a flight plan in the EFB when starting the flight. Using the EFB “send flight plan to avionics” button after I have started up and turned on the electrical systems will create the flight plan in the GPS system.
If you are not close enough to the flight plan to enable the NAV mode, you can start the NAV mode and the HDG mode and use the HDG mode to intercept the flight plan path, once the intercept has been achieved the NAV mode will activate and takeover control.
Iam flying the new ultralight sting s4 the NAV light NEVER comes on in the GPS mode but it does work ok in other 2 LOC modes???
The problem occurs in other aircraft with the same type of navigation system.
Tried to the point of asking for help???
