Originally Posted by
Roseland
If you're level but descending at over 10,000ft/min (c 110kts) is a vane on the side of the fuselage going to give a meaningful AoA anyway?
Why not?
I agree nobody would ever have done the flight testing etc. to calibrate the vane to two decimals accuracy at that AoA, but the vane output would still be meaningful, even if not terribly accurate.
CJ