Remote Steering and Auto Pilot

[Sneaks]

Indeed you might, Pat. IMHO, the biggest drawback to Intellisteer is the fact that it doesn't really hold a heading, it just steers, and if you or I moved about in a C-22 we'd be constantly tweaking the thing back to course.

On the other hand, the Simrad AP12/14 has a "built in" fluxgate compass, so you can "set it and forget it." Interestingly though, the compass really isn't useable for anything but the autopilot. It does not output heading so ya can't sneak it into the Raymarine network to get radar overlays like you can with the Raymarine fluxgate equipped autopilots.

topkick Ken sez Raymarine is dragging it's feet on a new rotary autopilot but the word I got was August/September 06. I do have the part number for it and Consumer Marine Electronics 2006 catalog even lists the Smartpilot S1 Sportpilot for $1379, but last time I called they had no clue whatsoever.