I know what you’re thinking “oh Diamond, when will you learn that trim makes your airplane pitch up if you adjust it too fast.” I’m well aware of that, and that didn’t appear to be the case. So, I was climbing to FL350 and was at about FL280. I began adjusting my trim about one digit at a time until I reached around 30%. I took my finger off the screen looked up from my phone for about half a second and looked back. The pink indicator on the trim somehow managed to nearly fill the whole box, and the 777-200F made an almost 90° nose dive. The top of the screen read “autopilot disengaged, check flight parameters,” so I know I didn’t disengage autopilot. I managed to recover from that fall and am currently continuing the flight. Is there a particular reason why this happened? (Unfortunately, I was unable to catch a screenshot)
Maybe the trim got stuck and kept going up? Like one of those glitches when you go into the pause menu and then the throttle is stuck, so maybe like that?
I don’t think so, because it was still at 30% after recovering.
Sounds like a bug in your system. Should be fixed by callibration before you use the trim.
I found an issue with autopilot I’m able to reproduce nearly every time in the same conditions related to this issue, where it will command full up on the elevators until the aircraft stalls. Yet I can fly the exact same profile manually and the aircraft flies as expected. I’ll have to get a recording of it later when I get home.
May or may not be the same issue.
This is the first time it’s happened… I’ll reinstall after the flight.
Maybe you didn’t disengage the “whole” A/P. Maybe you just hit the altitude-button by accident and left LNAV/heading and speed on.
@DiamondGaming4 Calibrate before you use trim.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t do that :/
I’ll try to reproduce it that way… gimme a sec
That could have been the issue… I just don’t see how I could have accidentally deactivated the VS 🤔
Anyway, somehow my throttle cut even though I was in solo mode on another device, so the flight was ended… again. So that was the end of a Terri beginning :/
I have the same problem, if I was descending, climbing or cruising and I use trim it will cause a sudden change. I suggest you add trim slowly. This is something that should be fixed.
I did that, like I always do. This is a first for me.
I just tested it out on solo, it was no problem for me. Not sure what’s going on for you.
I’m trying the flight again with the same procedures to see what happens…
Looks like the only logical explanation was what @Starley said about accidentally disabling VS. I’ll make another topic if I find otherwise. Thx for the help :)