Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:08:35 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from pop3.olsusa.com ([65.115.173.155] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.1) with ESMTP id 1880646 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:22:56 -0500 Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.232]) by pop3.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71866U8000L800S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:13:00 -0500 Received: from sdn-ap-002watacop0439.dialsprint.net ([63.187.201.185] helo=f3g6s4) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18DbYs-0003Lx-00 for lancair.list@olsusa.com; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:22:54 -0800 X-Original-Message-ID: <001901c28ea9$670e41c0$b9c9bb3f@f3g6s4> Reply-To: "Dan Schaefer" From: "Dan Schaefer" X-Original-To: "Lancair list" Subject: Navaid Autopilot (afterthought) X-Original-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:22:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Regarding my last post about the Navaid Autopilot, I forgot to add something. (Memory’s the second thing to go and I can’t remember what the first thing is). There is no way for the Navaid to produce an elevator transient (it has no coupling to the pitch control) but (and this may be what was being referred to in the earlier post) it’s likely (very) to produce an aileron twitch every time the mike button is depressed. It’s unsettling if you don’t know it’s going to occur though and it’s easy to stop. An input is provided on the controller that is connected, via a diode, to the mike button (which usually grounds the comm. Input for transmit). Grounding the circuit to the Navaid controller during transmit freezes the servo, while the button is depressed, and eliminates the twitch. Dan Schaefer