Ron Natalie writes:

There's a big difference between airline control movement and it's
relationship to trim than light aircraft. I'll restrict our talk
to light aircraft.

The 737-800 sim has a very fancy autopilot (like the real thing), and
when you touch the controls, it switches to CWS pitch or roll mode.
Unfortunately, I don't understand how that works yet (especially when
it comes to getting the A/P to take over again), so I don't use it
much.

The A/P in the Baron seems straightforward enough. I note that if I
set it to hold altitude only, it resists any change in heading as
well; not sure if that is the sim or an accurate representation of
real life (the A/P is marked KFC225, whatever that is).

My autopilot has both pitch servos and trim. You push on the yoke
it has the same impact that it would if the autopilot wasn't there.
However, what the autopilot does endeavor to do is adjust the trim
so that it's always "trimmed" which means it may try to trim away
your force (if you are pitching it away from where it thinks it
should be). The autopilot does this so that if you kick off the
autopilot it's giving you a plane that is in trim.

Do you feel more pressure in the controls as the A/P tries to trim
away your pitch change?

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