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Hey all, I'm trying to address an issue that has been slightly vexing since I bought this airplane. The S-TEC 55x is a fine A/P for its generation...although I've already inquired from Mooney if there is ever going to be an upgrade path to the new Garmin GFC600 or Genesys digital A/Ps...their response was "we'll look into it." So maybe someday. In the meantime, I would like to address what has always been a slow roll-rate for GPSS. On any kind of hold or course turn, the roll rate is slow to develop and I always fly outside the designated flight path and then angle my way back onto it. While installing the GTX345, my avionics guy showed me how to access the STEC config page of the G1000 and there is a setting for roll rate. It was set to -17, which he said was the maximum "inhibitor" setting meaning that would make roll the slowest. We set it to -13, but I can't tell if that's had much effect. My question to anyone with knowledge about STECs in general, or this G1000 configuration, is what settings they use or have experimented with. Has anyone tweaked these settings before to improve roll rate? If so, where did you end up? This may apply equally to the other S-TEC models, so if you've made changes to a -30 or other model I'd be interested to hear how that worked. Thanks! Jeff