Agree that an AP may not be worth it in some planes. I tend to fly a lot of
3 hours legs, hard IFR. It's bad enough doing it in a single. I had a good
price on an AP for my Archer II and my A36 had one or it would have been an
immediate upgrade.

ps ditto the Lightspeed QFR XC-2. It's one of my non-ANR sets.
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Thx, {|;-)

Victor J. (Jim) Osborne, Jr.

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I just got back from a 5500 nm cross-country in a Cherokee with no
autopilot.
At $10-15K and probably 50 lbs, it's not worth installing in many-a-plane.

The ANR is definately worth it (as you're proposing). I like the good
passive
performance and comfort of the Lightspeed QFR XC-2. ANR isn't as
aggressive as in
some, but the high-end Lightspeeds are horrible in their high-frequency
*amplification* IMO.