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Old 4th Oct 2014, 18:00
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Machinbird
 
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The angle of attack decoding function as specified in the documents provided by the operator
and the manufacturer was not valid. Further work is being carried out with the manufacturer
in order to determine and validate the conversion function.
Had an ominous thought.
Supposing the AOA probe (or some component downstream) was the wrong part number. Then you would very likely have this type of effect on the AOA flight data. Hopefully the maintenance records will give a clue on this.

The ominous part is: what else might be receiving bad AOA data?
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