Autopilot question?

[FFCW_Urizen]

while circling, is the altitude steady or are you climbing???
never noticed that before, but i have to say, i don´t use autopilot much.

[jamesdietz]

Yes I'd say a gentle climb,not as much as in Il-2 waiting for assistance...there might even be a leveling out altitude- I've never checked!

[Troll2k]

I have no firm data or proof.This is just my impression from building a few AI dogfight maps.

It seems to me that the AI have a built in takeoff routine.They complete a takeoff circuit before going to your first waypoint.

Maybe if you engage the autopilot before your first waypoint is reached they stay in that builtin predefined routine.After the first waypoint(and out of their builtin routine) the autopilot will engage.

If you create just a takeoff and one waypoint and watch them they will just do their thing before going to the first waypoint.

Anyway just a thought on my part.

[adonys]

The AI take-off routine makes them di airfield circuits until all the aircraft of their flight took-off and are very close to join/joined the formation.