Today I had a quite impressive experience with the Dynon Skyview autopilot in my RV-7:
First flight of the day it worked perfectly as usual. Second flight after T/O and during climb I switched on the A/P and realized that the roll servo was not online while the pitch channel (IAS) worked normal. Switched off then on - still no reply from the roll servo and the display showed something like "Roll Servo offline" in red. Then I switched off the servo power for a few seconds and when I switched it back on the roll servo came online and rolled the aircraft to the right, I stopped the rolling at about 60 degrees bank, so no limit there! I just overrided the roll moment and switched the A/P off. After that the A/P worked flawlessly again on both channels.
Honestly I can not recall for sure at which stage I switched the A/P just off and at which stage I removed servo power so I might have mixed this up.
Has anyone experienced similar behavior?
First flight of the day it worked perfectly as usual. Second flight after T/O and during climb I switched on the A/P and realized that the roll servo was not online while the pitch channel (IAS) worked normal. Switched off then on - still no reply from the roll servo and the display showed something like "Roll Servo offline" in red. Then I switched off the servo power for a few seconds and when I switched it back on the roll servo came online and rolled the aircraft to the right, I stopped the rolling at about 60 degrees bank, so no limit there! I just overrided the roll moment and switched the A/P off. After that the A/P worked flawlessly again on both channels.
Honestly I can not recall for sure at which stage I switched the A/P just off and at which stage I removed servo power so I might have mixed this up.
Has anyone experienced similar behavior?