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Old 28th Mar 2019, 03:32
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Salute!

Gums and maybe PJ and others are advocating limited use of an AoA indication, and primarily for your approach phase. You guys that want only airspeed will one day have a heavy plane and use a wrong entry on the table. The AoA doesn't care about the weight. Using both AoA and a rough idea for speed ( +/- a few knots) from a table is the best way to go.

For those not used to the really low aspect wings, or the jets with variable leading edge devices and so forth, there is no sharp AoA for stall, if any. Deltas like I flew early and the Concorde, Mirage series, etc, simply mushed. No stall break, just increasing vertical descent rate and loads of drag. Knowing the right speed for those helped a lot, but knowing the AoA was vital to keep from getting behind the "curve".
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U.S. Congress hearing today shoulda had Sully. He knows about AoA, leaing edge devices, underslung motors, crew coordination and such. Plus has unreal reputation, right up there with the Sioux City folks in that crippled DC-10.

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