Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
The kicker being, if I recall the LionAir mishap discussion, the AP disengages when the AoA goes pear shaped (or rather, the
AoA signal to the system).
That linkage informs my understanding of
the fix that Southwest went for.
(As I recall, we beat to death in various AF447 discussions (all now in the Tech Log forum) whether or not having an AoA gage for the pilots to refer to was a good idea or not. SW, it seems, has decided that it's a good idea at this point in time.
I am assuming the AoA installation being discussed displays respective AoA data on the left & right PFDs coming from their respective sensors, and that there would be some form of comparator and caution/warning system advising the crew of significant differences in the AoA values being produced by the sensors. Can anyone with operational knowledge of this option confirm that this is a correct understanding?