REFLECTOR: AOA

Lawrence Epstein ljepstein at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 24 11:42:24 CST 2014


How well does the Advanced Flight Systems AOA correlate to what you see on
the HXr?


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Youngblood <aqcs at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have an  Angle-of-Attack Pro System by Advanced Flight Systems. I also
> have a basic AOA read out in my GRT HXr.  It's invaluable for providing
> accurate approach speeds to fly regardless of aircraft gross weight.  Just
> follow the "ball!"  Also, there's no guessing on stall speeds.  I found a
> significant difference between stall speeds for a light load vs full gross
> weight on my XLRG.  Even in the Velocity,  a stall as you initially round
> out for landing will ruin your day.
>
> John Y
> N568Y
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Stockman, Bill <bill.stockman at daytonaero.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have it with my Garmin G3X system.     Common advice is that it provides
> less useful info than on a traditional airplane.
> It does provide info on steep approaches for short field landings or low
> speed landings or those too quick turns to final (after overshooting).
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Ron N VelocityXLFG
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:11 AM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: REFLECTOR: AOA
>
> My Dynon  has the capability  to show AOA . From what  I have read about
> aoa, it does not sound like there is a great advantage to it in our canard
> style air planes since our stall happens with the canard stalling first and
> the nose drop and recover being  so easy.
>  What is the thought on having this tool at our fingertips. Helpful our
> not.
>
> Ron
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