Flight Director incredibly sensitive in Bonanza
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While trying to hand fly coupled with the FD, anytime I need to make a bank to the left or right as guided by the FD, as start to bank just a few degrees, the FD starts swinging to the opposite direction. As I then slow my bank, it swings back to the original direction it was guiding me. It seems overly sensitive and makes it very difficult to follow.
My experience is in real world GA aircraft but I have never flown a Bonanza and or same type of avionics. Just seems to be far too sensitive. I don't think I remember it being that bad a couple of years back when I first bought it.This is a fantastic product and one of my top 5 addons. Great work with this.
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I've had one other report of this nature with Starship, but I don't believe anything changed in this respect between the early versions of the Bonanza and the later ones. I'm also not sure there is anything I can do about it. The flight director's behavior is related to the autopilot control constants, which I tune for automatic flight. As you can imagine, a sensitive FD while hand flying is much less of an issue to the average flight simmer than an oscillating autopilot. I could filter the output of the flight director, but I'm not sure that would actually make it any easier to adhere to while flying.
