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Old 22nd Aug 2011, 14:35
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Lonewolf_50
 
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Bear, in that case, if that's where you were headed, I'd recommend that you consider using the term "Recoverable" rather than "reasonable" as it's

more precise / less general / less ambiguous,
and
more "air minded"

as a descriptive term.

Thank you for spelling that out.

Insofar as opinion goes ...
The "Assiette" (That is a brilliant word, so much more descriptive than "Attitude").
In French, perhaps.

In English, attitude for aircraft relative orientation to various axes is concise and descriptive, as well as standard professional jargon.

It's meaning is clear.

Beyond that modest lexiconography, the distinction between Angle of Attack and Attitude is a necessary one, hence two terms for those two different frames of reference: on relative to the airmass, one relative to a (Cartesian?) coordinate system. (It seems in the past few threads, sometimes Assiette is interpreted as AoA and sometimes Attitude ... but that may just be the usual "lost in translation" issue).
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