One Step Forward, One Step Back

I only had a brief amount of time to fiddle with the airplane today, but it was long enough to run through the calibration of the autopilot servos. I was curious as to why they weren't showing up in the list of attachments attached to the Skyview, nor were the autopilot menu items on the screen. A quick foray through the foreign land that is Dynon documentation answered the question: you have to configure/calibrate the servos. Fair enough, and really not all that from calibrating a joystick on a PC game.

Once that was done, I figured out how to make it actually pretend to fly the airplane.

 

 I was surprised at how noisy it is - it will be hard to nap while it's clunking its way around the sky. Never content to rest on my laurels, I decided to try setting the volumes on the collection of noise makers, but soon found that the pilot-side microphone wasn't working. I tested the wires and they were good, so I threw in the towel and headed home. A little research on the internet leads me to believe that I might have a grounding problem. That will be easy enough to test, but if it doesn't help I am at a complete loss as to what I should try next.