We’ve purchased the dual axis digital autopilot from Blue Mountain. This is a really cool system, in that it can not only hold a course and altitude, it can climb to an altitude, or at a prescribed rate, or follow a flight plan that you enter into the EFIS. This is a very interesting system, in that the EFIS communicates with the autopilot control box over standard Ethernet cabling, and not only can it follow a GPS flight plan, or a standard VOR navigation radio signal, but ‘virtual VOR’, where the EFIS calculates where the VOR signal will be, when it is close enough to be received, and plots that course via GPS until the NAV radio picks up the signal, and then it switches to follow that signal.
BMA Digital Autopilot |
Pitch Servo Arm to Elevator Torque Tube |
Roll Servo Push Tube |
Autopilot Roll Servo |
Elevator Torque Tube Primed |
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Posted By: Brett FerrellMonday November 22nd, 2004 at 8:36 PM
Categories: Controls Tags: Autopilot Blue Mountain (BMA) Building Controls
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