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September 7th 03, 02:57 PM
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"Jay Honeck" wrote:
Question: Does anyone know why the old autopilots were hooked up to a vacuum instrument? This seems like the height of folly, since a vacuum pump failure takes down EVERYTHING, as opposed to the newer units that work off the electric turn & bank. Autopilots come in two species: rate-based and attitude-based. Yours is attitude-based, as are many modern autopilots, especially the high end ones. Rate-based autopilots like my S-Tec 50 tend to be simpler and cheaper. The fact that they continue to work after a vacuum failure is a happy coincidence of the fact that turn coordinators are electric. -- Dan C172RG at BFM 
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