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The aircraft had yaw trim as well as pitch trim, and they were all out of whack. After a glorious week at my first Oshkosh we were headed home and I asked him if I could hand fly the aircraft for a little while, and he said yes. I found this very curious, especially as a young electronic flight controls engineer at Sikorsky Aircraft. About every 10 minutes, it would make a correction to the left, then go back to S&L. But I did notice an interesting thing about the autopilot. Had any of that kit crapped out, and had I not been there, I think he would have gotten lost. He held altitude within about +/-500 feet much of the time. He had a single axis autopilot and knew how to couple it to the Loran.

He was not a very accomplished aviator, which was actually a good learning experience for me. We both lived in the same town in Connecticut. Many years ago, when I was a student pilot, I went to Oshkosh with a 300 hour pilot who owned a Cherokee 6.