Originally Posted by
WHBM
I think there were a number of us surprised that such were a chargeable extra ticket item. It would be interesting to ask if the FAA knew it was such, as (surely the prototype but) also the initial production aircraft used in the certification tests all seem to have been for operators who had selected the AOA comparison option.
Thanks a lot for that feedback on this conference. This refers to a senator saying that AoA indicators should fitted as standard. Fitting AoA
indicators is certainly not something that most airlines want even if money were no object. That is why wealthy airlines apart from one perhaps, don't fit them. They can be very confusing, require a lot of training and understanding - far more than the data we already have at our disposal - which many on this forum have said is confusing enough already. An AOA disagree
warning would be a good idea and would result in pilots knowing not to trust AoA any more and probably get on the ground asap. and avoid any flight situation that might require their use.
Anyway my concern here is we have people from Donald Trump and now a senator who flies a light aircraft telling the industry how it should be done. An industry that has driven airline deaths to almost zero over the last forty years. Not every year, and 2017 did see one death world wide but to no other industry gets close to those sort of safety improvement statistics.
And of course if the AoA indicators are being fed erroneous information by the AoA sensors then ..................
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