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Old 8th January 2016 | 23:01
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Crash one
 
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There seems to be a few who are confusing an AoA indicator with a stall warner. They are not the same thing!
The stall warner warns at a point very close to the actual stall, no information is given prior to that. The AoA READS the AoA all the way from zero to beyond the stall. A stall warner is like having a buzzer that only sounds two knots below VNE instead of an ASI.
In Cessnas I have frequently landed with the horn sounding, my a/c doesn't have one and I've made 40deg banked turns on final for 9 years in it with no problems (nose down of course). I would love to know exactly how close I am to sudden death!
As for flying the "bum" how does one calibrate the bum between a gentle squeeze and something you may get in an Essex bus shelter?
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