Gezellig wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:28:16 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Not a moment's hesitation.......An angle of attack indicator.

Why is this not standard?

I gave up years ago trying to figure out why things that make flying
safer and better are not made standard. :-)))
AOA indication has always as far as I know been considered an option on
light civilian aircraft. There are costs involved as well as performance
testing to determine optimum parameters....another step in the process.
The main reason I believe is the fact that light civilian airplanes fly
in the area of lowest performance where the raw data already existing
using basic instrumentation is sufficient.

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Dudley Henriques