Your goes off with UPS livery?
It happened to me yesterday, also with UPS livery, just after takeoff, I engaged AP at 1500 RA, after second AP disconnected, when I turned it on again, it stayed on.
Not sure can it be something with livery, but I have completed several flights with FedEx and TFDi livery, no such issues.
I’ve done it with the stock TFDI livery and the UPS livery. Both have had to issue. If you haven’t already,
Make sure you go to that GitHub link and comment about having the same issue. We need them to figure out why this issue is so prevalent for some and not others.
I was watching a live stream by v1simulatuons and somebody commented that raising the pilot view up a little seems to help with the landing. I tried it and agree. It’s still a handful to land but the extra bit it height above the glare shield seems help give you a better idea of that the plane is doing.
Did my first test flight with the MD-11 to get used to it (without flight plan).
My dumb*ss thought that 140kts IAS would be a good approach speed for a loaded MD-11. Well of course it wasn’t. I managed to land the plane but it was a dangerously unstable approach with a hard landing. Probably would have caused structural damage if it was a real plane. Lol.
If you wanna see this, here you go: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/epbQMBV3xUY
I think I am holding off on this until some of the issues have been resolved. I have yet to get the 777 and the A300, so I can wait a bit. I am a LONG way away from what I used to be when MSFS2020 first came out and for at least the first 1.5 years buying literally everything so I could test and provide reviews. That guy is in the past. I am picking and choosing a lot now and don’t have 80% of the aircraft I bought installed anymore.
yeah, i bought it now on the official release, but i already got the 777. I didnt fly the 777 yet tho, as i didnt had time yet, just some testing. Then i bought the MD11, learned the basics and did a first short cargo flight. I`ll wait a bit for the 777F and till the MD11 has matured a bit more. Till then, im now learning the A300-600F and use that one as my cargo hauler. 
same 
i was aware that the approach speed on the MD is quite high, so i prepared for that. Calculation gave me 165kts. I was more catched by the very unstable and twitchy manual flight on landing, ended up in a bounce, almost crashed… was quite the challenge to handle speed management and a heavy cargo plane that flyies like the Asobo C172 on initial release 
Nice and interesting video for u MD11 lovers:
The plane was notorious for bouncing and oscillations during the final approach phase…
yeah i know, but not THAT sensitive, i guess? atleast of all the landing videos ive seen, it looked pretty stable?
The correct takeoff sequence
If you want to see a pro MD11 pilot, check out FatherTime on YouTube. Both he and I were on the TFDi test team, and he flew MD11s for AAL back in the 1990s.
On the tfdi discord they even recommended to use -60 sensitivity on the alpha yoke 
It appears that this pitch sensitive bug is being exacerbated by some specific joystick/yoke or even specific configurations of these hardware, making it a much bigger problem than it should be.
The problem is that the MD-11 is pitch sensitive in real life, so it will be difficult for devs to get genuine feedback. And to make matters worse, multiple people using different joysticks and different settings, which will obviously have different feelings about the aircraft’s handling.
Bounciness was the reason for a few serious accidents leading to adapted flight crew training
SAme here. No idea how to work it out. No conflicting key binds, just randomly working on one flight until it doesnt on the next one…
Edit:
I´m pretty sure it is something in the scenery. AP works out of EDDM or KMKE. But it doesn´t for example when departing LOWL.
No idea what would cause this…
yes, im aware of that but i understand what u mean now 
true, thats why i asked for recommended settings on the discord for the alpha yoke
Thank you very much for this review of the takeoff configuration. This is indeed slightly different from some of the other tutorial videos I watched from established sim community TY’ers.
And, funny you mention Father Time, since I just watched his videos for the first time last evening (he is a recently retired AA pilot, I think, who was type rated in the 777 and the MD-11 amongst others). His MD-11 video was fantastic (he was on TFDi’s QA team) and even better was his first PMDG 777 video, where’s he’s definitely emotional and nostalgic from his time with the airlines and with that plane. Not only does he carry himself exactly as you’d predict a veteran old-timer commercial airline pilot would (as if from Central Casting), he’s a long time simmer, apparently, back to P3D days who knows all of the apps, add-ons, and technical stuff inside and out. He’s not some pilot someone dropped in front of a PC for clicks. Great YT’er, great videos, highly recommended.
Just did some short flights and overall happy to have MD-11 in my hangar.
What annoys me is scrolling the AP knobs instead of click/hold to dial HDG/ALT/SPD.
Will need AAO to program these.
Good job TFDi
You can program keys on keyboard to ajust HDG, ALT, SPD and V/S
I set:
Shift+q alt+
Shift+a alt-
Shift+w spd+
Shift+s spd-
Shift+e V/S+
Shift+d V/S-
Shift+r hdg+
Shift+f hdg-
It is much easier when I fly manually, especially at approach. Because my right hand is on stick, while left is on throttle, but I can take off left hand from throttle and press keys, while if I take off hand from stick and point a mouse cursor to certain know my there is time for aircraft go of path. And it is much faster to set certain value than by cursor.
