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Old 4th Feb 2018, 10:38
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eckhard
 
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I think your suspicion is well-founded. The angle of attack will be found by subtracting the FPV from the aircraft pitch attitude and then adding the angle of incidence.

However, given that we don’t (normally) know what the angle of incidence is, and given that it is small and probably varies along the span, a good approximation of alpha may be assumed by ignoring incidence.
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