George Lives!

George the autopilot is back in the aircraft.  I moved the autopilot from the big opening above the right yoke to under the left yoke.  Two reasons for the move.  First, it opens the whole second radio bay for instruments.  While I currently only have plans for a transponder’s worth of space, might as well have more just in case.  Second, when flying in the left seat, I had to reach across the passenger every time I needed to disengage the autopilot, which is basically every time I needed to switch headings or VORs.  George had a tendency to turn to the right when the pilot push-to-talk was depressed when in NAV mode, so I took this opportunity to replace the nav indicator wires with shielded wire, which should solve that problem.  Of course, I can’t test that theory until the airplane’s back in the air :).

The GPS mount is also wired up and theoretically is talking to the EDM.  I’m not sure I quite followed the directions for setting up the non-primary instruments in the EDM correctly, so this is another one of those things I won’t know for sure until the plane’s in the air.  I’m not sure why I originally ran the power cable for the GPS through the panel above the right yoke instead of straight down to the panel holding the intercom.  It’s out of the way and looks better where it is now.

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