Great post (as usual) Gary, I agree with almost everything you said. Even up here in chilly New England, we love our flybridge. Unless it is really cold, or pouring rain, that's where we prefer to be. But then again, I'm a former sailor - and open-cockpit ultralight flyer. With the RayMarine electronics package, you can put your master autopilot unit (with rudder angle indicator) at whichever location you choose - and then use the wireless remote at the other. On our boat the master is inside, so at the upper helm, we have added rudder position readout on the Raymarine E-80 screen (easily done just by programing the unit). It works great. It's good to have that feedback underway as it alerts us to weird stuff, like seaweed caught on the rudder, or when it's time to re-align the rudders - a PDQ peculiarity. It's also good to be able to center the rudders during close-in maneuvering when we use the throttles almost exclusively. (This maneuverability - without even having to touch the wheel - is certainly one of the joys of the powercat!) Henry Clews PDQ 34 Sno' Dog www.geocities.com/snodoglog In a message dated 1/15/2007 9:26:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tulgey@earthlink.net writes: <snipped> I would go for one of the zoomy new wireless handheld autopilot controls, except they lack a rudder angle indication. Too bad, maybe the next round or two of development will help me out there....