Today I reinstalled the control module
(AV5000) and reinstalled the upper fuselage skin. I pulled the airplane out onto the apron. I went into the menu on the SL-40 and
adjusted the value of the sidetone to 100.
It was originally at 0. The
highest value to which it can be set is 255.
There was no change to the whine in the headset. At 4:00 pm Arlene and I went up flying for
almost an hour. It was a good time. We flew over Sandy and Draper, over the Sun
Crest area and into Utah Valley. We went
out over Utah Lake then turned and came back to the Salt Lake Valley. I turned on the auto-pilot to see how it
functions with the newly installed AP presets from Vans. I am going to need to spend some time in the
air “re-tuning” the AP. It is pretty
twitchy in the turns and it wanders a bit on the altitude hold. Otherwise we had a great time. This is the first time Arlene has flown with
me since the time she went up following the 5 hour flyoff.