On 20 Dec, 01:51, J a c k wrote:
Ian wrote:
I generally find that my attention is fully occupied while landing.

When isn't it? I always find myself falling behind somehow whenever I
begin to merely enjoy the scenery.

Oh, hard luck. Enjoying the scenery is one of the reasons I go flying.

If I had an AoA indicator, I would have to take attention away from
something else to look at it...

There is a thing we in the game call a cross-check: look into it.

Are you saying that I could look at another indicator without spending
any less time on anything else? What do these things do - relativistic
time distortion?

(I always have the audio vario and radio
off for the final approach).

Now I get it, Ian: you are really a troll/FAA Inspector, here to roil
the waters on r.a.s. We can play that game.

FAA? What's that, left-hand-side-of-the-Atlantic boy?

The vario-off mode is OK, if you must reduce the aural clutter, but
please tell us how you believe that turning off a major link (radio) you
have with one of the greatest hazards in flying (other traffic) is going
to improve your longevity: and in the pattern, no less? Horrified minds
want to know.

"for the final approach" != "in the pattern"

Any thing which reduces potential distraction during the most
hazardous phase of flying is a Good Thing, in my book. Hearing gliders
isn't nearly as important as seeing them.

Ian