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Old 6th May 2019, 15:46
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hans brinker
 
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Originally Posted by Smythe
Not that simple, in a climbing turn, AoA will always disagree.
For all their blatantly obvious faults, I don't think Boeing is incapable of designing a working AOA disagree system. They set the threshold around 5deg I believe. I would think that is based on test/simulations showing "climbing turns" will not give an AOA disagree more than 5 degrees. (also don't think the it needs to be a turn, or climbing. The AOA disagree will get higher for higher AOA, especially in combination with un-coordinated flight).
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