Originally Posted by
Toruk Macto
How hard would it to be to have a basic AOA indicator installed in every commercial jet ? Then a basic training package to be included in every endorsement that trains to react in a situation when all hell brakes lose ?
We discussed this at some length during the marathon AF 447 threads.
Some professional pilots do not see it as the answer ... the link is to a discussion in PPRuNe Tech Log.
You clearly identified what has to go with an AoA gage in the cockpit: training. When and where it is an aid, and normally an additional scan item, is the key enabler to another instrument being of use in the odd occasions where it would be useful.
The paper linked in that post tells why IFALPA isn't so supportive of it as a solution.
Further that point, and as noted some posts ago: would it have been of use in this incident if the flight deck crew went into a fairly rapid task overload? FDR analysis will clarify, but a small wager is made at this point that the answer is
no, not in this case.