Autopilot disconnect button

[AlanR]

Thanks Steve for the input.
All taken on board and whilst I have looked into rigging up a temporary switch there would be quite a lot of work to do in order to do this on my aircraft a Bristell NG5. Access to the switch is quite poor and disturbing the present dual servo wiring and connections would not be exactly easy to do either.
Nonetheless I guess it may come to that in the end if I fail to find any other solution!

Currently I am still leaning towards or maybe hoping, it is a config/set up/software issue in my twin D1000 Skyviews.....!

Alan

 

[AlanR]

To update, having done a recent couple of 50 minute flights.
Once again it now works all perfectly and the remote disengage button works perfectly every time!
As per my thinking previously I am more than ever convinced the problem lies within my D1000 Skyviews. A software or maybe hardware glitch somewhere.

All I have done this time is to change the 3 disengage options in Autopilot disengage setup from 'Yes' to No' and then changed them back again all to 'Yes'.
I have not replaced either the resistor or the disengage button.
The Autopilot now disengages and engages immediately every time as it should without the roll or pitch slip errors that were previously showing.
All a bit of a mystery...
So, I guess all I can do is to see if it goes....hopefully like last time it will be another 4.5years or perhaps longer until the fault emerges again!

Alan.