I think there have been posts that would claim that it is better to fly with no gyro at all but I obviously did not choose that route.

I am concerned about a gyro failure in flight as remote as that scenario might be. So I would like to have a flight control that doesn’t use heading hold (AVCS mode). Whether I will be able to react fast enough to turn the AVCS mode off in a panic is another issue. As Credence has already stated, doesn’t it make sense to have some revolution mixing if you are NOT in the AVCS mode?

The Eclipse also has Rudder to throttle mixing function and I assume it would be beneficial to set this up when the gyro is NOT in AVCS mode. Is this a correct assumption? While practicing hovering on the SIM one of oddities that I experienced was a change in elevation without touching the throttle stick. It is still not known to me why this occurs.

Ace