Occasional G1000 glitch

[Alan Maurer]

Mooney People, A question; On some flight the Autopilot will not turn on  and I just use heading mode and attitude hold. After ten or fifteen minutes, I try to re engage the autopilot and works fine. Maybe there is a way to troubleshoot this???? Suspect it will be hard to find anything since it is intermittent> 

Anyone else have the same problem?

Thanks

N913ND

Alan

[mike_elliott]

Does your aux > system show all green checks when it is dysfunctional? 
sometimes re-racking the modules will address an intermittent issue, but your saying this is repeatable at startup, correct?

im assuming gfc700 not stec

 

[Alan Maurer]

Hi Mike, this is. the G1000 in 2008 Ovation. And very intermittent. How does one "re-rack " the modules? Happens at startup for 15 minutes...then normal operation the autopilot is gfc700...not stec 

Thank you

Alan

[mike_elliott]

The g1000 modules in the radio rack need to be removed and reinstalled. This is delicate as the connector pins are easily bent if mus aligned on reinserting. If you have an avionics shop on field ask them to do this as a check. 
it’s not difficult nor time consuming but requires extreme care and shouldn’t be done by someone unless qualified 

access is on the pilot side

first verify on the aux system page no red X on anything after AP self test