The course autopilot works in the He111 and the Me110. There is a small issue with it, in that when you match the desired heading with the actual one before engaging it (to prevent sudden course chances once engaged) it stills needs to make a 5-10 degree adjustment. It's like the two rotating compass cards in the gyro-compass are off in relation to each other by that amount of degrees.
For example, if i'm flying a heading of 120 i set the desired heading at 120 and activate the autopilot. Instead of keeping steady, it will gently rock left and right and then settle at 127 degrees (or 113, i can't remember which way it's offset to).
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature (documented inaccuracy in the real-life system?), but it's doable and easy as pie to fly the 111 and 110 this way.
In the Ju88 this doesn't work, because the gyro-compass is bugged: you can read your magnetic compass and input the heading into the gyro-compass, but it won't update its readout and stays stuck at that value. This prevents using the course autopilot, because the autopilot is "fed" information and decides which way to turn by correlating the desired and actual heading from the gyro-compass. Since the actual heading compass card is stuck, you end up with a constantly turning aircraft and a downward spiral.
As for the Lorenz and Knickebein, i would be extremely interested in seeing how they work. I guess that the beams must be placed on the map via the FMB for it to work though and i wouldn't know how to convert a given IAS/TAS and altitude mission profile into a correct spacing for the intersecting beams to give an accurate bomb drop.
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