SAS Failure

The stability augmentation system provides aerodynamic damping on ail axes of the airplane. If any axis of the SAS fails, control can be maintained by the pilot.

Note: True X-15-type SAS operation is not supported on the current simulation platforms. However, the X-15A-2 SE addon contains a modified SAS panel [48, fig. 5-1] with the basic autopilot controls for altitude hold, wing leveling, attitude hold and yaw damping modes.