AoA keep it going!

Ralph Jones wrote:
"Fly attitude and don't chase the airspeed" really means "fly AoA and
don't chase the airspeed", but if you don't have an AoA indicator, you
have to use the attitude as a substitute for AoA. And it's a
second-rate substitute.

Please pardon me if I sound a bit cranky, but how can attitude be a
"second-rate substitute" for something that we don't even have?

And what would a "first-rate substitute" be?

Not a single poster here has flown with an AOA meter in their glider,
except a few using yarn taped to the side of their canopy. Is that what
we should be using instead of attitude and airspeed?

"Show me the money".

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA
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