Bill,

accidents don't happen because somebody is missing a gadget.

Accidents happen because people are not aware about the situation they are
in. On a winch launch, and more so during free flight, you have lots of
indications about what is going on (speed, attitude, feel, sound).

Whenever somebody lacks situational awareness, he is an accident waiting to
happen, and the lack of awareness is the main cause of accidents. It's not
the missing AoA which is fatal..

Somebody who doesn't pay attention to what is going on will not benefit from
an AoA because he obviously doesn't care about all the information he
already gets.

I am a profound believer that you can increase safety only by training (both
mental and on the stick), and by increasing situational awareness. Adding
gadgets is an engineering approach to something which can't be solved by an
engineering approach. Somebody who doesn't get the fact that he is about to
stall will find another way to die, once you've added the AoA (and he cares
to look).

Bert

"Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message A safe AOA
indication is an absolute guarantee that you won't stall - no ASI
indication gives that level of assurance.


Bill Daniels