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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:40 am    Post subject: was Re: Re: autopilot install- now which one?was Re: autopil Reply with quote

Just as an FYI. When I ordered my TT Sorcerer ( I have the full blown version) I ass/u/med ( you know the / saying ) that it had an auto trim feature included, but since I've starting flying I now realize that the auto trim feature is a separate option. What happens without it is the auto pilot will audio out for the pilot to "trim up" or trim down" . Yesterday while flying at around 2500' I was showing someone how the auto pilot worked. It was a little bumpy here in the TX warm afternoon and the AP was saying trim up or trim down a bunch. It gets a little annoying, you're trying to talk and it's saying "trim up" or "trim down".

When I first starting flying the plane, the auto pilot would say trim up or down and I thought it was just telling me everything that it was doing not that I needed to do the trimming, so I wasn't doing anything and it would just keep telling me. In my last plane I had the Century IV AP and it did that function for me so I was use to not having to do this.. Anyway I have since ordered the auto trim feature, another $650, and will be installing it shortly. I probably could live without it but it's sometimes a little distracting for it to be putting out audio trim commands all the time. In hard IFR I'm concerned that it could become a major distraction from the tasks at hand.

I absolutely love the AP though. This thing can do about anything you could want it to do and then some. For those who have the Chelton's and the TruTrak AP, I started out with Chelton software ver 6.0A9 and when I used the GPS steer (GPSS) function the AP would kind of wonder around trying to keep on coarse. I have since upgraded to Chelton's latest ver 6.0A16 and it' really tracks the coarse great now.

Wayne Edgerton N602WT
flying and going to paint on Tuesday :>}


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