Author: Paul
Subject: Autopilot capabilities
Posted: 29 Mar 2015 at 9:34pm
We now have the IFD 540 and Icarus SAM installed in the stack along with the existing KAP 140 autopilot. My wife flew an ILS approach today and could not get the autopilot to couple. Everything else seemed fine and she hand flew the approach using the crossed needles on the indicator.
She had tuned the NAV radio in the IFD to the localizer and put it into VLOC mode. She hadn't entered the approach, just set the airport as a waypoint.
The SAM was set to HDG mode.
The KAP 140 refused to go to NAV mode (or approach mode).
Any clues as to what we're missing?
Subject: Autopilot capabilities
Posted: 29 Mar 2015 at 9:34pm
We now have the IFD 540 and Icarus SAM installed in the stack along with the existing KAP 140 autopilot. My wife flew an ILS approach today and could not get the autopilot to couple. Everything else seemed fine and she hand flew the approach using the crossed needles on the indicator.
She had tuned the NAV radio in the IFD to the localizer and put it into VLOC mode. She hadn't entered the approach, just set the airport as a waypoint.
The SAM was set to HDG mode.
The KAP 140 refused to go to NAV mode (or approach mode).
Any clues as to what we're missing?