Flight Simulator autopilot is one of the many features you can take advantage of in the 2020 simulation game.
Regardless of your aircraft, you can hand over control to your co-pilot for as long as you need with AI Control.
This is useful if you want to adjust the weather or play with different camera views without interrupting your flight.
However, for those planes that do have autopilot, there is a quick way to enable it as well, and since using autopilot for an extended period is a requirement for a Flight Simulator achievement, it’s worth learning how to do it.
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How to use ‘autopilot’ with AI Control in Flight Simulator
For a quick and easy way to control the plane for you in an autopilot-style setup in Flight Simulator, you need to find the AI Control setting in the toolbar.
To do this, go to the toolbar at the top of the screen (on Xbox this appears when you click the left stick) and then select AI Control.
Within this window there are three settings: Checklist Assistance, Manage Radio Communications, and Control Aircraft. Selecting the latter will activate the autopilot, handing control over to your co-pilot.
This will allow you to resume the flight plan you originally set, which is useful if you are lost or have difficulty handling the aircraft during adverse weather conditions.
This is a useful aid for beginners in a difficult situation, but if you fancy having Flight Simulator’s stunning views open in a window or on a second monitor, it could be the perfect screensaver.
For those researching their Flight Simulator options, we have a list of aircraft and a list of airports for each release edition, a list of Flight Simulator achievements. Then, when you start playing, we’ve got explanations about weather and layouts, multiplayer, using autopilot and simulation speed, and how to use the game’s equivalent of Hot Pause photo mode.
Autopilot controls in Flight Simulator
In addition to the simplified autopilot in AI Control as described above, there are a number of keyboard shortcuts that allow you to enable the aircraft’s actual autopilot settings (if you have one, of course).
These are the default Flight Simulator autopilot keyboard shortcuts:
- Autopilot activated: ALT + Z
- Autopilot off: SHIFT + ALT + Z
- Maintain airspeed on autopilot: ALT + R
- Decrease autopilot reference altitude: CTRL + AV PGDOWN
- Increase autopilot reference altitude: CTRL + PGUP
- Toggle autopilot approach hold: CTRL + A
- Toggle Autopilot Attitude Hold: CTRL + T
- Toggle autopilot locator hold: CTRL + O
- Toggle Autopilot Speed Hold – CTRL + M
- Toggle Master Autopilot – Z
- N1 Autopilot Standby – CTRL + S
- Decrease autopilot reference N1 – CTRL + END
- Increase autopilot reference N1 – CTRL + HOME
- NAV1 Autopilot Standby – CTRL + N
- Decrease autopilot reference airspeed: SHIFT + CTRL + DEL
- Increase autopilot reference airspeed: SHIFT + CTRL + INSERT
- Decrease Autopilot Reference Vs – CTRL + END
- Increase autopilot reference vs CTRL + HOME
- Toggle Autopilot Wind Leveler – CTRL + V
Final note: Using AI Control and autopilot is not foolproof. Known issues on Steam at launch note that “autopilot may have issues with altitude and speed targets” and, in our experience, AI control tends to ignore speed warnings.
For example, when we had AI control activated when taking off from Monument Valley Airport, I couldn’t cross the mountains safely. Ultimately, while AI Control is still a useful tool, be aware of some minor issues until later patches arrive.
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