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Hi all,

I was flying the BAE 146 Avroliner (the red one in the gambling livery) north over the UK at 26000 ft.  Air pressure was 3020mb, I was cruising at 300kts IAS on autopilot (with NAV switched on - basically the plane was flying itself  8-))

All of a sudden, the plane started swinging wildly across the sky, porpoising through 2000ft or so, and swinging through 90* left to right and more, basically it got so bad I had to disengage autopilot and drop down 10000ft before the wing stalled.  Very odd.

I was using the 15min update real-life weather, it was cold and fairly windy, pressure was as I said earlier.  Basically, was this just a glitch, or something I was doing wrong?  As a last resort before dropping out of autopilot and descending I switched on the Yaw Dampener, but it had no effect.

Thanks for replies, I'd like to know what killed my 80 or so passengers

Cheers

Seb

Icing maybe?

Did you have autothrottle on?

Autothrottle, Flight Direction, Altitude Hold, NAV, the entire autopilot basically, was on.

It's FS

Sounds like you encountered a massive wind shift... and the autopilot got into an "overcorrect/undercorrect" cycle.. It's happened to me before. A large change in wind will bring on large corrections by the autopilot (both pitch and throttle) and if the wind shifts back quickly, you've got a doubled effect for a period of time...

When in doubt, disengage that AP! Same applies in RL...

Thanks guys, I didn't think it was me

As a point of interest, as I was descending in manual control the aircraft was still getting blown around quite a lot so maybe it was a glitch in the wind engine.

Cheers

Seb