AP hunting

[Jaque]

My AP wanders around both the heading and altitude settings. Plus/minus 150 feet in a slow porposing manner and a slow lazy S around the selected heading. Adjusting the gain on either the roll or pitch doesn’t seem to change it much but I haven’t played with the sensitivity yet. Has anyone had the same initial effect and come up with solutions?

 

[Rhino]

What software version are you running? There were some autopilot problems that were addressed with the latest update(s).

 

[Jaque]

Pretty sure its 16.4 as that's what I have on my stick but will verify that I uploaded it on the HDX when I get out to the hangar again

 

[-Bob]

Did you run the autopilot tuning procedure as described in the Autopilot Inflight Tuning Guide?

https://www.dynonavionics.com/includes/guides/SkyView_Autopilot_In-Flight_Tuning_Guide-Rev_D.pdf

 

[Jaque]

Yup but I think I’m going to start from scratch. It’s the first time I’ve tried setting it up (new build) and entirely possible I missed something or got something out of order. Just interested in a heads up from anyone who’s done it all right but had similar issues.

 

[RVDan]

With the new tuning points in 16.4 and the new procedures I suggest starting from the defaults and tuning per the procedure. after some years of mediocre AP performance, I finally got mine dialed in.