Yaw Damper

Yaw Damper Bracket

To be honest I always considered a yaw damper function reserved for larger turbo prop and jet aircraft.  For those not familiar , the yaw damper's function is to assist in maintaining coordinated flight through small yaw (rudder) inputs.  This prevents a dutch roll type movement which could be very uncomfortable for passengers.  Now on smaller aircraft especially without swept wings it's not something you would typically see installed.

Initially I had decided I would forego the extra expensive and complexity and not install it.  I thought it was cool but as I said to someone it's not $1500 cool.  Two factors however had me change my mind and self justify the costs.  First I've had two of my kids who fly often throw up on landing... this wasn't because I'm terrible at flying but because in common Oklahoma gusty conditions the last 10 mins of flight can be a bit all over the place.  Next I was able to fly in a friends Bonanza A36 which is equipped with one.  I was very impressed with the smoothness of the flight and how coordinated the plane flew even in steep turns.

In late 2014 Garmin released a bracket specifically for the RV-10. If you're up to it you can save some money in exchange for time and source and fabricate your own pieces. I've seen several projects where people had done this for Dynon systems and seemed to have success. I decided to take the easier route and just go with the kit. It took maybe 30 mins to work through both the pitch and the yaw bracket kits and get them ready to install.  What took the longest was drilling out 4 ackward rivets in the aft end flanges of the bell crank assembly. Part of the Yaw bracket rivets into this and I was able to buck two of the rivets and decided to use 2 pull rivets on the bottom holes.  All this was a lot easier because the top skin isn't on.  It's done for now, I'll have to wait until I get the 2 servos which will just bolt onto these pieces and can be adjusted during final rigging.