I went up again today for a short flight to
check out a couple of things in regards to the AP. I made one small adjustment to the VSI gain
and I am now satisfied with the way the AP captures and holds the altitude
input. The weather was a little
strange. When I took off the winds were
calm and visibility was 10 miles. I flew
out to the evaporation ponds north of Grantsville to check out the AP. As I neared the water towers south of ATK the
air got really rough. There was lots of
turbulence. I climbed to 6200’ and
continued flying towards Magna. When I
got past Magna, but not quite to Saltair a low lying cloud cluster was right in
my flight path. I entered the cloud and was
through the other side in a matter of seconds.
It was an interesting experience.
After flying for a short time I returned to the airport. The wind was now 160 at 14 knots , gusting to
19 knots. I was happy to put it down for
the day. I also noticed when I landed that my AOA
widget is missing from the PFD. It
appears that when I updated the SkyView with the Vans download the AOA was
deleted. I will need to go up again and
recalibrate the AOA.