Actually I initially was thinking that if I bank the plane the gyro would not level the wings once I remove the control input. But then when I flew it his morning and banked left it would slowly roll back to wings level but not to the right. I guess what is happening is a couple of things. I must not have it trimmed for level (non banked ) flight very well. it must have a slow right bank/roll with where the trims are currently set. The other factor may just be inherent stability of this particular plane. Mostly it must be just enough out of trim. Another factor is that both times I have flown since getting the gyro operating the air has been very smooth and stable. I wasn't seeing the gyro do anything because it wasn't getting upset by bumps or thermals. The other factor would be that I did most of the flying the first time out in hold mode and just a small amount of the time in NORMAL mode. Like I said above, Normal mode or rate mode or whatever they call it would be considered the normal mode for most aircraft operations and to me a green light made sense and was telling me I was in normal mode when I was in fact in hold mode. I think it helps. I don't have it set very sensitively.

So........bottom line is............everything is working as it should be I think. I need some bumpy air or a less stable plane or both so I can see the gyro doing its thing. I put it in this plane to get an understanding of how it all works before putting it in an aerobatic plane or a jet.

So now I have a new question. One of our local jet flyers is known for his length of the field rock solid knife edge flight. I have seen him do it with a number of different jets. I know he has cortex or some sort of gyro on board because I asked him if he did. My question is..... would he be using the normal flight mode or the "hold" mode ?

As you can probably tell while I have been flying rc for nearly 60 years and jets for about 17 or 18 years. I have very little gyro assisted flight experience. I have a simple gyro on yaw axis in my TF C-310 that is just about the extent of my gyro assisted flight. The 310 can be a little bit of a fish tailer at times, that's why I have it on there.