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Old 2nd Oct 2006, 13:36
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Originally Posted by formulaben
It was quite disappointing to be up high trying to determine max endurance or estimate climb performance and having to either get the book out or make an educated guess. A simple AOA guage would have been quite useful. IMHO, all aircraft should have full-time AOA info available to the pilot for certification.
Perhaps Cessna are denying you the gauge by default because they WANT you to use the data from the manual, perhaps because it isn't just a simple function of AoA.....
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