Today I was flying my 4500 in extremely strong (50+kts) cross winds aloft.
I noticed the flight path indicator turning red, presumably from reaching
the maximum deflection. I also noticed that the wind indicator disappeared
intermittently for several minutes at a time. This included the wind arrow and
the numeric strength and direction values. The vanishing wind arrow did
not seem correlated to the red flight path indicator, but I wonder if it had
something to do with the strong X-wind. I know that loss of GPS data will
cause the wind indicator to vanish, but there was no indication of anything
wrong with the GPS data. Any idea of the cause and fix?
- Dan