I Fenixed from LPMA Madeira to ESSA Stockholm in 5h 15sec recorded.
I have no idea what happened to my Fenix on the final approach. It was all set up on the ILS single autopilot enabled, gear, full flaps, CAT I but it was bucking around like I was riding a bull. I was checking the weather thinking there must be crazy storm force gusts, but it was just 15kt. Then all of a sudden the autothrottle couldn’t handle it and the autopilot disconnected. It pitched violently up and I had to quickly take over and go around.
I vectored back to the same ILS 01L and this time I chose to hand fly with manual autothrottle, expecting to have a seriously hard time of it. But it was fine, completely stable, simple approach in and gentle landing. I’m quite confused as to what the autopilot was doing the first time.
