Haven’t seen this bug being reported by other uses on IFC. I’ve experienced this issue for almost 2 years now.
Whilst executing an ILS approach in a A320 with AP disconnected at around (3 DME) the aircraft is trimmed out nicely. Later on durning the approach I disconnect AT and experience a severe pitch down motion which require quite a lot of back pressure. This doesn’t make any sense and can’t be a realistic feature.
Yes, I always recalibrate my device before disconnecting the autopilot. But that’s not the issue here, it’s AT which is completely unrelated to trim control…
It happened on the first leg on short final (600ft msl). You might not see a big drop but that’s because I reacted quickly with a big deflection of the elevator.
Looking at the elevator in 3rd person view I can see that it reset to the neutral position during AT disconnect. Also it wasnt a ILS but vis approach, my bad.
Yeah it didn’t happen on the return leg, but I’ve experienced it’s multiple times before. Must be a bug (as I’ve said before) because the AT shouldn’t act like this.
I don’t think this is a bug. When I first started flying on IF, I didn’t add trim and never recalibrated. This lead to a sudden dip of the nose once I turned off the AP, especially if the aircraft is too nose heavy. Once I got a little more experienced, I began trying several trim amounts until the nose didn’t drop, or it did very little. This is all without recalibrating. It varies from aircraft to aircraft, but on the B737 I use 15% trim for landing at Flaps 30° and 135kts. It works wonders.
Try some flights in Solo and find the trim that best suits you.
If by AT you mean autopilot, I’m fairly certain this isn’t a bug. It’s happened to me on numerous occasions and every time I was not trimmed properly. What percentage of positive trim were you using (if you can find it)
Very interesting… I don’t understand how the throttle could be connected to the elevator though. I guess I’ll have to do some testing of my own later. In this case I’m thinking its probably a bug, but I’ve never experienced it first-hand so idk for sure