Dear Lancair Builders/Owners,
my name is Wolfgang
Meyn and I built an F1 Rocket during the last 4 ½ years.
The airplane flew for the first time in August 2007 and has
accumulated over 100 hrs. since then.
I live in Cloudcroft,
NM and fly out of KALM.
On a recent visit to North
Las Vegas airport I met David Link and Martin Heisler
who
gave me a tour
of their recent projects and helped to do some engine tweaking on my
supercharged F1 ( www.teamrocketaircraft.com
)
Talking airplane and avionics specifically the subject of
autopilots and continuous trouble
with the
performance of my TruTrak
Sorcerer came up.
After describing some of the reoccurring vertical and roll
steering problems Dave Link mentioned
that unreliable/unpredictable
performance of TTs units is a problem the Lancair community has encountered too.
My repeated attempts to solve the problems together with Trutrak have been to no avail.
Everybody at TT has been extremely
supportive but the blame for most of my problems has been pushed primarily towards
my installation.
I started discussions on the F1 Rocket list (www.teamrocketaircraft.co/forum)
and pretty much from the start it was apparent that I was not the only one who
has “unexplainable problems”.
So today I would like to ask you to chime in and maybe the
two groups together can shed more light into the darkness and get TruTrak to the point that they fix these ongoing problems.
What I am specifically interested in is:
1.
What TT
unit do you use?
2.
What problems did you encounter?
3.
Under what conditions do the
problems occur?
4.
What fix did TT
offer?
5.
Did the fix work?
The Teamrocket community has
turned the heat up a notch for TruTrak and I am sure
if we can get together with a few more fast movers we have a chance to get these
problems fixed once and for all.
Please visit our builders/owners forum at www.teamrocketaircraft.com/forum
and checkout the AUTOPILOT topics or contact me at mw104@netmdc.com .
Cheers
Wolfgang Meyn