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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:33:05 -0500
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From: marv@lancair.net
Subject: Re: [LML] Trutrak Problems
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Posted for "Chuck Jensen" <cjensen@dts9000.com>:

  Wolfgang,
  
  I have read your postings, but the lack of detail regarding the nature of 
the
problem and the steps you, and TT, have taken to resolve them leaves us with
nothing but anecdotal "I'm having problems" and other "Lancair drivers are
having problems".  What are the problems and who are those Lancair drivers?
  To quote "with a few more fast movers we have a chance to get these problems
fixed once and for all."  What problems? What "continuous troubles"?  Names,
details would be helpful instead of broad generalization.  Let's hear some
useful details from Dave Link?
  
  Your continuing complaints with TT seems at odds with my personal TT
experience (anecdotal that it is) but also numerous other posters as well.
  Why are you special?  I understand that TT says this may be an installation
problem.  My question is, how do you know that it is NOT an installation
problem?
  
  Chuck Jensen
  
  
  -----Original Message-----
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of
Wolfgang Meyn
  Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:23 PM
  To: lml
  Subject: [LML] Trutrak Problems
  
  
  Dear Lancair Builders/Owners,
  
  my name is Wolfgang Meyn and I built an F1 Rocket during the last 4 ½ years.
  The airplane flew for the first time in August 2007 and has accumulated over
100 hrs. since then.
  I live in Cloudcroft, NM and fly out of KALM.
  
  On a recent visit to North Las Vegas airport I met David Link and Martin
Heisler who
  gave me a tour of their recent projects and helped to do some engine 
tweaking
on my
  supercharged F1 ( www.teamrocketaircraft.com
<http://www.teamrocketaircraft.com/>  )
  
  Talking airplane and avionics specifically the subject of autopilots and
continuous trouble
  with the performance of  my TruTrak Sorcerer came up.
  
  After describing some of the reoccurring vertical and roll steering problems
Dave Link mentioned
  that unreliable/unpredictable performance of TTs units is a problem the
Lancair community has encountered too.
  
  My repeated attempts to solve the problems together with Trutrak have been 
to
no avail.
  Everybody at TT has been extremely supportive but the blame for most of my
problems has been pushed primarily towards my installation.
  
  I started discussions on the F1 Rocket list (www.teamrocketaircraft.co/forum
<http://www.teamrocketaircraft.co/forum> ) and pretty much from the start it
was apparent that I was not the only one who has "unexplainable problems".
  
  So today I would like to ask you to chime in and maybe the two groups
together can shed more light into the darkness and get TruTrak to the point
that they fix these ongoing problems.
  
  What I am specifically interested in is:
  
  1.                   What TT unit do you use?
  2.                   What problems did you encounter?
  3.                   Under what conditions do the problems occur?
  4.                   What fix did TT offer?
  5.                   Did the fix work?
  
  The Teamrocket community has turned the heat up a notch for TruTrak and I am
sure if we can get together with a few more fast movers we have a chance to
get these problems fixed once and for all.
  
  Please visit our builders/owners forum at www.teamrocketaircraft.com/forum
<http://www.teamrocketaircraft.com/forum>  and checkout the AUTOPILOT topics
or contact me at mw104@netmdc.com <mailto:mw104@netmdc.com>  .
  
  
  
  Cheers
  
  
  Wolfgang Meyn