Autopilot: why HeavyPro pauses
When the autopilot flies, HeavyPro steps aside. Here is why, and what happens when you take over.
When you engage the autopilot, the badge shows AP ON · PAUSED. HeavyPro hands the controls back to the aircraft, because shaping a stick nobody is flying would only fight the autopilot.
Disconnect the autopilot and HeavyPro picks up again, starting from where your stick actually is, so the yoke does not jump to the centre first.
Tip: HeavyPro reads each aircraft's own autopilot state. After a Fenix flight, the Fenix's autopilot lights no longer count in other aircraft, so a PMDG or iniBuilds jet is not mistaken for "autopilot on".