I've been fairly successful (by my standards!) in setting the autopilot on this plane to get it to do what I want it to. Nothing clever - just to fly straight and level for long flights. I set an altitude hold. plus a heading locked onto the heading bug. and control power manually.
As I say, this all seems fine. But I don't want to use the autopilot for approach/landing, I want to fly this manually. The problem is I can't find a way to disengage the autopilot without totally losing control of the plane. On disengage, the plane enters a steep roll and dramatic pitching. Sometimes I can recover from this but I then find that ailerons or rudder - or both - are no longer centred on my joystick, making it impossible to continue the flight.
Is this expected behaviour? Is there any way I can achieve this successfully?
Thanks
Fred