On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 4:46:53 PM UTC-7, Dave Springford wrote:
If it's on the side of the canopy is it still a yaw string?

Sorry - couldn't help myself.

Nope, AOA-string.
Had a Mod-1 on the side of the DG-1000. Not very useful if you wanted to see where you are going and where the trouble might come from. Worse than any flight computer.
Heinz