Installed SV ver 12.0 last Sunday, and have made a number of flights. I plan a full write-up, but thought I would give a few quick observations.
The Auto-Trim works very well and changes the very way the Autopilot works. Leveling out at a new altitude is totally different. Instead of leveling and then cycling through Up and Down Trim commands trying to capture the new altitude and compensate for power changes, the captures are very smooth.
Trim Commands and Slips have almost disappeared, but not completely. Some more tuning to do on my part - perhaps.
The OBS function is terrific. I established inbound courses for my airport and flew them with great precision, as if I were tracking a localizer. I found it more precise than tracking the Geo-referenced GPS Approach Plate inbound course for the same runway. I think that may be because the Course line seems finer than the Approach Plate, and the locations of the IAF and FAF on the Plate are quite coarse.
Now, the not so good news. It seems new versions resurrect old demons, once put to bed.
The flight has once again been broken into segments - a previous problem, once solved. Only now, some of the segments have "gone missing." On a 54 minute flight today, only the final 25 minutes recorded - picking up at some unknown airfield picked by the system due to its proximity. If not retrievable, the missing data will be the first missing data since I first started my engine before first flight, up until the present - about 250 hours and 350 flights.
The Warning and Caution aural annunciations continue as they did in Ver 11, despite set-up menu selections of OFF on Start-up. This old problem was fixed (Ver 10?), but returned again in ver 11.0, and now 12.0
Bob Bogash
RV-12
N737G
The Auto-Trim works very well and changes the very way the Autopilot works. Leveling out at a new altitude is totally different. Instead of leveling and then cycling through Up and Down Trim commands trying to capture the new altitude and compensate for power changes, the captures are very smooth.
Trim Commands and Slips have almost disappeared, but not completely. Some more tuning to do on my part - perhaps.
The OBS function is terrific. I established inbound courses for my airport and flew them with great precision, as if I were tracking a localizer. I found it more precise than tracking the Geo-referenced GPS Approach Plate inbound course for the same runway. I think that may be because the Course line seems finer than the Approach Plate, and the locations of the IAF and FAF on the Plate are quite coarse.
Now, the not so good news. It seems new versions resurrect old demons, once put to bed.
The flight has once again been broken into segments - a previous problem, once solved. Only now, some of the segments have "gone missing." On a 54 minute flight today, only the final 25 minutes recorded - picking up at some unknown airfield picked by the system due to its proximity. If not retrievable, the missing data will be the first missing data since I first started my engine before first flight, up until the present - about 250 hours and 350 flights.
The Warning and Caution aural annunciations continue as they did in Ver 11, despite set-up menu selections of OFF on Start-up. This old problem was fixed (Ver 10?), but returned again in ver 11.0, and now 12.0
Bob Bogash
RV-12
N737G
