The autothrottle improvements would be even simpler than you think— during climb, airspeed is controlled by pitch, and throttle is set to climb power, which is either constant or increases gradually depending on the aircraft and settings selected.
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We desperately need this. I’d actually suggest a full autopilot rework, but autothrottle is by far the worst part of the current autopilot system in IF. It’s unbearably bad.
Autothrottle is far too aggressive, it overreacts to any small influence and regularly exceeds 100% N1. The latter it should just not be allowed to ever do.
This function needs to work much better, I should be able to set an airspeed without the autopilot doing nonsensical things
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i really want this feature because i think it would be easier, and maybe, you can pre set speeds during flight
Bumping - the auto throttle system in IF needs a major rework and these suggestions look awesome
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Shouldn’t the TO/GA button be available also in the air, or at least in APPR mode?
You got my vote lad! Amazing idea.
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Voted! Would be so cool to have a system with TO/GA!!
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This would be a awesome feature. It would make flying my beloved MD-11 alot easier, she has quite a large landing and takeoff threshold so a improved AP and auto trim would help massively!
Count my vote in!
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Ugh, once again had autothrottle hitting way more than 100% for no reason at all, and it wouldn’t even stop at all. It’s so infuriating, this topic needs so much more attention than it gets right now.
The way it is right now, youre basically forced to not use autothrottle before reaching your cruising altitude, otherwise you’re at an immediate risk of the system randomly doing stupid things
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This would definitely be appreciated. In my personal opinion, I think a reworked or upgraded AutoPilot is more of a necessity than new aircraft. It would be cool to pre-set takeoff thrust settings to have like in real life, or for Go-Arounds etc.
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voted, if we want a big step towards realism then it is definetaly a thing to be added in first place
What would change this feature? Like, if you are descending with the current AP, what would change if you pressed the DESC button? I think its better if the entire IF throttle would be remade to the real thing instead of adding this. Or just make a different system, because as we all know, IF likes to keep their aircraft simple. Something more like setting your AP speed to 240 kts to start the takeoff roll, so the plane will throttle up, to a maximum of xxN1 (more on this later) and then reduce thrust when you enter the climb fase. All this without having extra buttons.
About the max N1 value, the plane will calculate how much thrust it will need.
This is an amazing idea I’m surprised it’s not already a feature You’ve got my vote