A Few Things I Have Learned About the G3X and Autopilot

Some of these things are sort of obvious.

1. On the autopilot, the scroll wheel for vertical speed has a detent for every one hundred feet. You can roll the wheel by feel and count the clicks to set it to what you want.
2. If you click the VS (vertical speed) button on the autopilot when you are already ascending or descending, it will already be set to that rate — no need to roll the scroll wheel up or down.
3. In general, for safety reasons you should use Indicated Air Speed (IAS) (aka FLC) for climbing and Vertical Speed (VS) for descending. Having said that, I find that IAS tends to hunt a little compared to VS.
4. The proper technique for disengaging the autopilot when you breakout on an approach is to press the AP button on the autopilot rather than to click the AP Disconnect button on the stick. The reason is that if you just use the AP Disconnect button it will also turn of your flight director.
5. Make sure you have a checklist item to confirm that the yaw damper is off prior to taxiing (and after you have landed). I have more than once while taxiing found the rudder panels seemed to be bound up and found that the Yaw Damper was on.
6. When you are inbound to an airport and load an approach, you should almost always LOAD it, and almost never LOAD & ACTIVATE it. When you do the latter, the airplane is going to immediately head toward the Initial Approach Fix (IAF). This is usually not what you want and not what the controller is expecting.
7. While not as sexy as flying a full approach, Vectors-to-Final (VTF) is a much more common scenario. It is super important to practice using VTF before you need it so you understand what it does.