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    D180 D100 on a Van's RV12

    I have a D180 and a D100 plus a Garmin 496 connected with the standard van's wiring harness. All of them have stand by batteries and the D100 is also connected to the static system. If I lose my primary power, What info will I still have. Also, if I lose my standby power on the D180, What...
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    Fly my RV12 in a circle with the Dynon autopilot

    Today was the day to give it a try.  50 degrees F moderate turbulence up to 18 kts of wind.  I flew the circle at 100 kts at 6500 ft altitude. The Dynon autopilot flew the whole 360 degree circle perfectly.  It took about one minute between waypoints and 10 seconds before entering the next...
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    Fly my RV12 in a circle with the Dynon autopilot

    I have set up a flight plan with 36 waypoints 10 degrees apart with a radius of 10 miles.  The waypoints will be 1.7 miles apart requiring a heading correction of 10 degrees and the flight time between waypoints will be approx. 1 minute.  What I am trying to do is have my autopilot fly in a 10...
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    Canopy warning system for RV12

    I have an RV12 with the standard D180 and AP74 autopilot controller.  I have installed a canopy warning system by using Van's magnetic switches mounted on the canopy latch and also on the Throttle mechanism like the ones used for the wing pin warning system.  I have wired it in series with the...
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    Nautical miles per gallon on D100

    I have an RV12 with a dual display - D180 on the left and D100 on the right.  I have the D100 set up to record nautical miles per gallon.  My question is "is this figured using the true airspeed or actual ground speed?"  In other words, does it take into consideration whether or not you have a...
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    Auto pilot heading hold

    I have a RV12 with the dynon auto pilot.  The dynon has been upgraded to 5.4 and in general the auto pilot works better.  I have 65 hours on it.  Today the conditions were light to moderate turbulence and I thought the autopilot didn't seem to hold a heading very well.  It seemed to very from...
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