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I just had the weirdest thing happen to me in the above airplane.

I took off from Athens airport and loaded my flight plan for the flight to Dusseldorf. ATC gave me a heading and height for the fleight - I was climbing at 15 degrees and on take-off heading at that time.

I punched in the data into the autopilot settings (heading 245, altitude 16,000, I set an IAS speed of 220) and turned the autopilot on - the plane "jumped" then the autopilot went into a 50 degree+ climb  :o Needless to say, it stalled, fell a few thousand feet, then the autopilot did it again!!

I then tried the heading setting by itself for the autopilot - worked fine. Tried IAS speed alone and with heading - worked just fine. But the altitude setting always results in the autopilot setting a ridiculous climbing degree, resulting in a stall - even when the actual height and the programmed height are just 200 feet apart and vertical speed is at 50 - it still tries to fly straight up.

Am I doing something wrong or is the aircraft itself buggered

Oh and something else - it has trouble maintaining a speed of 200 knots even on just 10 degrees climb, whilst the 737 can do this without a problem (full thrust in both cases) - is this the case in the real aircraft, or another point where the project airbus plane is messed up?  ???

Only thing I can think of is just fly the plane yourself.  

I'll set up a high flying route in a A319, takeoff, put on Autopilot, but eventually I'll get bored and fly the plane myself, trying to maintain heading, altitude, and flight speed.  

Otherwise, try checking the Vertical Speed setting in the autopilot, maybe it's set too high, and if so, move it down to 1500 or so.

-HF

Try engaging the autopilot right when positive climb and wheels up is achieved. If that doesn't work pull the v/s knob (right click over the knob) and then input your desired vertical speed.

that plane is very accurate. if you install that plane in fs2004 then there is a proble. the model is only for fs2002

the climb for a320 is different from 737  ;)