PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Angle of attack indicator
View Single Post
Old 23rd Jun 2017, 00:44
  #2 (permalink)  
scifi
 
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Broughton, UK
Posts: 182
Likes: 0
Received 5 Likes on 3 Posts
Hi Gundernak, The AoA meter indicates the angle of the un-flapped portion of the wing to the relative airflow. When the flaps are deployed, a pitch down is required to maintain level flight. So the un-flapped portion of the wing reduces its AoA ( which helps to prevent a wing-tip stall.)


The AoA of the flapped portion of the wing increases, because the trailing edge is lowered, and that part obviously stalls first.
.
scifi is offline