Since my first solo flight in G-MLSY on the 22nd November I’ve managed to log around 9 hours in 15 flights. The weather has been kind and quite dry. All of them have been used to familiarise myself with the aircraft and understand the flight characteristics and systems. It’s a delight to fly, reasonably fast and very responsive.

One of the things I needed to do was tune the autopilot. So where shall I go? I thought a little message to Karen would be very appropriate after all the support and encouragement she’s given me during the build so I programmed this up on SkyDemon and sent it to the SkyView.

Once I had taken off I engaged the autopilot and let it do the rest. I adjusted a few autopilot settings during the flight but it worked faultlessly. It’s a very impressive set up.