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Old 27th Apr 2019, 10:42
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by GordonR_Cape
I am not an expert on flight instrumentation, but everything I have read about AOA vanes on the B737 in this thread, indicates that it is not a particularly well suited input parameter for direct command of flight controls.
Historically, that has been an accepted strategy. A number of aircraft types in the past have been fitted with a stick-pusher, which uses AoA as an input and acts directly on primary pitch control (elevators).

However I'm not aware of any stick-pusher that acts on the input of a single sensor, with no redundancy.

Stick-Pusher Philosophy


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