AOA indicator

Well, you can use the AOA other than landing. Just so you know the navy teaches to fly by AOA for carrier landings. (Full disclosure, I am not a Navy pilot, never have been). However, I have landed on a boat and taken off from a boat, back in my helicopter days.

On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 7:14:19 AM UTC-7, Casey wrote:
I don't get it. Most critical time to have eyes out of cockpit...especially if landing out.

On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 9:14:19 AM UTC-5, Casey wrote:
I don't get it. Most critical time to have eyes out of cockpit...especially if landing out.

Totally agree. The best way to convey AOA is with aural tones (from personal experience in F-4s that had such a system). Properly implemented, you can control your approach speed precisely without ever taking your eyes off the runway to look at the airspeed or AOA indicator, regardless of bank angle or gross weight.

Kirk
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On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:58:57 AM UTC-4, kirk.stant wrote:
The best way to convey AOA is with aural tones (from personal experience in F-4s that had such a system). Properly implemented, you can control your approach speed precisely without ever taking your eyes off the runway to look at the airspeed or AOA indicator, regardless of bank angle or gross weight.

This sounds worthwhile, and I'd think it would be relatively easy to implement in software.

On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 8:58:15 AM UTC-7, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:58:57 AM UTC-4, kirk.stant wrote:
The best way to convey AOA is with aural tones (from personal experience in F-4s that had such a system). Properly implemented, you can control your approach speed precisely without ever taking your eyes off the runway to look at the airspeed or AOA indicator, regardless of bank angle or gross weight.

This sounds worthwhile, and I'd think it would be relatively easy to implement in software.

I will write the firmware, if others do the hardware...

Marc

Audio aoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H81AcnZeaMQ

On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 12:54:52 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Audio aoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H81AcnZeaMQ

Not quite. This is just a beeping stall horn that goes off at a discrete threshold. I imagined an audible AOA that would produce different tones for different AOA, so that you could use it to gauge AOA that is less than critical AOA. How is that useful? You could use it to hold the plane a notch below critical AOA during maneuvers, like a dive recovery.

It would sound something like an audible variometer. You'd probably want to automatically turn the audible variometer off perhaps when current AOA got within range of critical AOA.

Surely this exists already. There are AOA indicators that provide a visual readout of current AOA over the entire range.