Tonight, after a little research and subsequent tweaking I did a little more flight testing. For some this kind of flying is as boring as bat-sh&*…
for me it is interesting, and challenging! The program tonight was all about the interaction between the MCP and the flight model.. so lots of dull motoring around on autopilot….. Testing Autopilot pitch control through a range of speeds and configurations. The main issue I had initially was that the MCP was commanding trim changes which were way too aggressive, and so caused the aircraft to porpoise quite badly. After the tuning the aircraft is stable in *most* phases of flight, I just need to tune out some pitch sensitivity when the aircraft is in approach configuration.
I have also switched to the Wilco sound package… it is better than what I was using, but I’m still not completely happy with it. I’ve since downloaded a couple of freeware sound packages to add to the test programme.