Thread: AOA indicator
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Old April 15th 16, 04:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default AOA indicator

Who cares?

Feel the force, Luke.

On 4/15/2016 7:06 AM, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 12:54:52 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Audio aoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H81AcnZeaMQ

Not quite. This is just a beeping stall horn that goes off at a discrete threshold. I imagined an audible AOA that would produce different tones for different AOA, so that you could use it to gauge AOA that is less than critical AOA. How is that useful? You could use it to hold the plane a notch below critical AOA during maneuvers, like a dive recovery.

It would sound something like an audible variometer. You'd probably want to automatically turn the audible variometer off perhaps when current AOA got within range of critical AOA.

Surely this exists already. There are AOA indicators that provide a visual readout of current AOA over the entire range.


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