Originally Posted by
CONSO
Seems to this SLF that a simple damped pendulum free to swing in the fore and aft direction ( eg a plumb bob ) and properly oriented to maybe 3 degrees body pitch with simple visual readout would make a simple ' AOA' sensor backup and could be part of a simple "inertial" standby system NOT dependant on anything else - sort of a needle , ball, ( and non alcohol ) system
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Last edited by DaveReidUK; 18th Mar 2019 at 18:14.