REFLECTOR: AOA

[Don Johnston]

That is correct. The AOA is calibrated to the wing that you are interested
in. In our case, the canard.  Just like a conventional aircraft would not
be interested in when the horizontal stabilizer stalls.

The big advantage to the AOA is that it lets you know how close the wing
(canard, for us) is to a stall. And it does so regardless of weight, speed
and g-force.

At least that's how I understand it. :-)


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Brian Michalk <michalk at awpi.com> wrote:

> I've studied AOA for the velocity, and I believe, but am not certain that
> we have to integrate airframe AOA with the elevator angle.
> Since we are interested in the canard stall, we need to incorporate the
> elevator position as well.
>
> If we were interested in main wing stall, then this wouldn't be a problem.
>
>
> On 2/24/2014 10:10 AM, Ron N VelocityXLFG wrote:
>
>> 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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