"Dudley Henriques" wrote
My understanding on AOA for you heavy drivers is that you actually
have preferred using a calculated approach speed for the GW rather
than AOA because the configurations and the weights vary so much.

That was the beauty of the AOA system that I flew for two years in
the Navy P-3. Each flap setting was fed into the AOA computer and
the GW is automatically acounted for as a function of AOA.
No thought or computation required for the flightcrew. AOA *IS*
airspeed properly adjusted for all of the variables, or I should say
that airspeedd is a not very good approximation of the AOA that one
should be flying.

Those "old farts" would not relenquish ANY of their authority to a
copilot or a machine. Thank god for CRM, GPWS and TCAS.

Bob Moore