Here's a business ideal for someone. If you do it and are successful, just send me a box of Cuban cigars and one of the units and I'll be a rich man just knowing an ideal worked while I enjoy a good cigar.
Here Goes............................
With all the discussion about LOP going on and doing it right, why not develop a computer controlled mixture adjustment servo. It would be active instead of passive, easy to override/turn off and would turn off as soon as you touched the mixture control.
For lack of a better name, call it the MAP (Mixture Auto Pilot).
Here's how it would work..........
The vernier cable would be interrupted with a servo in the middle. The pilot wouldn't notice anything unusual in the cockpit. Just a normal red knob and and the panel unit. The servo just turns the cable.
The plane would need to be flow matched to enable the LOP function.
Using data from the plane's instruments, it auto sets the mixture. When at altitude, you push the LOP button and the unit will go into LOP function. The LOP function won't engage until at or below 60% power. As soon as hits 61%, the unit goes to ROP or even richer depending on altitude and power.
The stuff that we dream up........
Here Goes............................
With all the discussion about LOP going on and doing it right, why not develop a computer controlled mixture adjustment servo. It would be active instead of passive, easy to override/turn off and would turn off as soon as you touched the mixture control.
For lack of a better name, call it the MAP (Mixture Auto Pilot).
Here's how it would work..........
The vernier cable would be interrupted with a servo in the middle. The pilot wouldn't notice anything unusual in the cockpit. Just a normal red knob and and the panel unit. The servo just turns the cable.
The plane would need to be flow matched to enable the LOP function.
Using data from the plane's instruments, it auto sets the mixture. When at altitude, you push the LOP button and the unit will go into LOP function. The LOP function won't engage until at or below 60% power. As soon as hits 61%, the unit goes to ROP or even richer depending on altitude and power.
The stuff that we dream up........