Chris
Thank you very much for this feedback and positive comments about the system.
I can certainly incorporate this experience into my Europa set up!
Best regards
David
> On 23 Sep 2023, at 23:04, n7188u <chmgarb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi David,
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> I know my answer wont be a direct answer since I dont have this AP in my
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but I have it my LongEZ. I installed it 10 years ago and it has been flawless.
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> But I can share my experience with the setup: I set it with the recommended
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points in the manual. And when I turned it on in the first test flight
it flew the airplane perfectly.
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> The setup in a simple unit like this is easy and the manual is fairly clear.
And this leveler is great and gentle. Start with the lowest Activity (gain)
setting
and highest torque. The important one for control is the gain. If you test
it with the low setting and it cant keep the wings level or a course just
increase it a little. If you go up to much it will oscillate the wings specially
in turbulence or when you bump the ailerons. At that point just back of a point
or two. In my case changes in gain made not much of a difference. That is
how good this unit is. It is just very stable. Its better to have the lowest
gain you can get away with that still flies the airplane well.
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> Once the gain is set back off on the torque until the unit still flies well
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you can override the ailerons. But you can play with it as much as you want
with full torque but be ready to turn it off if something wonky happens which
with this gentle unit I doubt it will.
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> I bet it will be just fine. Remember that this unit only keeps the wings level
and tracks a course. Those two functions are rather easy to control without
much setup. Now, flying an ILS, thats another story :)
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> Hope it helps
> Chris
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=511477#511477
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