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Old May 9th 07, 12:09 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Robert M. Gary
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Default Autopilot questions for small GA aircraft

On May 8, 2:28 pm, Kev wrote:
On May 8, 1:39 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

I think you'll find that it is very odd for a high performance single
to not have some sort of an autopilot. In my personal airplane I have
a single axis autopilot that can follow the loc, vor, etc. Most of the
time I use it on heading mode.[...]


I'm not that familiar with Mooneys, but I thought all they had full-
time was a simple wing-leveler. I didn't realize it could also be
slaved to LOC, VOR, HDG. Is that normal, or an option or ?

Thanks!
Kev


The basic system was a vac driven system that was just a full time
wing leveler. Later models (such as mine) included an option for the
"PathFinder" autopilot, which is fully electric and has a selector of
leveler/heading/nav1/nav2

-Robert