buttman wrote:

My instructor, which is a very knowledgable guy tried telling me that
lift has nothing to do with airspeed. He said that lift is directly and
soley related to AOA and AOA only. So if you are doing slow flight, you
are producing more life than you are when you're cruising.

No. From the Jeppesen Sanderson "Private Pilot Manual" -- "Lift can be increased
in two ways; by increasing the forward speed of the airplane or by increasing
the angle of attack."

And elsewhere -- "When an aircraft is in straight and level flight, .... lift
equals weight ..."

So, you have no more lift when you are cruising level than if you're in level
slow flight.

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