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So many good ideas on AoA. Much thought and real considerationhas
have been expressed. Something (A-HA!) came to mind. Visual indicators! Back in 1901, or some where about then, I flew a 1-26 to a really high altitude. I had left the area of recognizable land and decided to look at the ground and figure out where I was. Before I had that good idea, I was looking right at the sun, well above the horizon. Looking down, all I could see was black! The land was in definate NIGHT TIME! I have always been a FLAT EARTH person. I have also watched the sun go around the earth! I get up with the sun in the east and go to bed with it setting in the west. From umpteen thousand ft, I spotted a little (very little) strip of light. There was where I decided they would find my body. I opened the airbrakes and managed to find a lighted strip of asphalt at an intersection in Nevada. The rest of the story is interesting (to me) but has little to do with AoA. At my air strip, when you turn onto base leg, the ground rises, With the horizon high, pilots tend to raise the nose to see a normal sight picture. Airspeed slows,.. things don't look right and some push rudder to point the nose down the runway...or at the tie-down area. At thousands of ft in the air, the horizon looks low relative to the instrument panel. At pattern altitude, the horizon looks higher and may lead a pilot to raise the nose, losing airspeed in the turn onto final. I need to make changes. What should I do? Maybe reverse the pattern and let pilots see the lower horizon and tend to make them let the nose down? Maybe I ought to go to bed and let things be as they will be. Fred. |
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