AirRabbit,
I started this thread as more of a curiosity, than as something really useful. But it has made me think about things more carefully. Your suggestion of using an AOA indicator has been suggested by others, and I often wonder why we don't have them in the civil aviation fleet, but this would digress into another thread subject (as an aside Boeing had a tech report about AOA use for the airline fleet).
In the interest of simplicity, maybe I should just remember what I was first told: "when you pull back on the yoke things on the ground get smaller; if you keep pulling back they will get larger again". Also, I was once asked to explain by an examiner what keeps airplanes in the air. After launching into the usual explanations, the examiner just snickered and pulled out his wallet. He then replied "it's this green stuff that keeps airplanes in the air, don't ever forget that".
regards,
flybubba