You'll thank me someday! :-)

I think you can train for IFR in an RV-12, but not fly it in actual IFR weather. It would probably require more than a Skyview though. That might be an exclusion for any LSA airplane - I’m really not sure. I can’t tune to VORs without a nav radio, but I could install one. The only point in doing that would be a level of redundancy if my primary GPS failed. I carry a spare GPS (iFly 720) just in case. The Skyview GPS can navigate to a VOR and even be set to OBS mode if I ever need to follow a precise radial. One interesting thing is that I could actually train towards a Commercial rating in the RV-12 because it is considered a technically complex airplane.

No, but there is also an indicated airspeed mode. That would be the same thing. It would adjust climb rate to keep below a set airspeed.

I wondered the same thing... In all situations, it would be assumed to make a right turn...

That turns on/off the Flight Director. It's turned on in this video - its the two horizontal purple bars sitting atop two yellow triangles, right in the center of the screen. They display everything the autopilot is going to do. So, if the autopilot brain thinks we need to turn left, it will tell both the FD and the servos. The purple bars will move in a left roll. If the autopilot servos are disconnected, I would turn the plane so that the yellow bars are nestled up against the bottom of the purple bars. Basically it lets me replace the servos. This is handy in rough air because I'm allowed to be more powerful than the servos, which are by law required to be weak enough to be overridden, and can control the plane better in rough air than the servos can.

In the video they come on automatically when I turn on the autopilot at about the 1:26 mark.

it could be. I don't think the current GPS would qualify, but most IFR capable GPS would interface with the SkyView. You would probably want a heated pitot tube too, depending on the type of flying you expect to do. The amperage budget on the Rotax 912 with a single generator is pretty low, so a heated pitot might not be possible. I would like to set mine up for (trigger warning) light IFR, but I'm waiting to see if the new law that gets rid of the Class III physical passes first.

+Jim Bo 007 Agreed. I don't understand the reasoning behind restrictions like that - maybe the big fish like Garmin have too much to lose. I can't see a safety concern at all, at least until you get into Complex planes - those are treated differently for pilots, why not avionics too?

Wished they just let us live free . ( wonder if it`s because us=corp.) ? :)

Your wish has been granted ... latest news from Oshkosh is Dynon (& others) will be available for part 23 retrofit.

I've done both. IAS hold is problematic when there is a lot of thermal activity - I can easily exceed redline with a fixed-pitch prop when it unloads. I just prefer altitude hold.

Did you mean to say, "I just prefer Vertical Speed hold."?

This is not a jet or turboprop, use whatever works best for the conditions.

That’s a side effect of not having a script, but it’s also an indication that I’m a little distracted. That’s not a good thing, really.