Yeah, I tried a "yaw string" AoA setup, and while it did show AoA, it
was extremely sensitive to yaw, and wasn't really in the correct
position to help a pilot while thermalling or during landing. Plus the
range from "cruise" to "min sink" to "too slow" wasn't very big (on my
LS6, using about 8 inch long "AoA strings") - less than 2 inches, if I
remember right, and the ends are always moving making holding a
particular AoA a bit problematical.

Plus one of the strings (the upwind one, obviously) was always getting
caught in the canopy...

Heck, JJ, I figure that since the F-4 came equipped with both a real
live mil-spec yaw string (there is actually a hole in front of the
windscreen for the string to exit after being tied off inside the nose
- and a black stripe painted in front of the canopy for reference) and
a really nice visual and aural AoA system, we should have the same
thing in a glider.

An aural "fast - on speed - SLOW" AoA tone that would replace the audio
vario when the gear is down would be nice...

JJ, it was 3 to 8 units until the jet started to fly again - pointy end
first. Otherwise, the F-4 departure bold face was (I think...) "STICK
- FORWARD, AILERONS AND RUDDER - NEUTRAL, IF NOT RECOVERED MAINTAIN
FULL FORWARD STICK AND DEPLOY DRAG CHUTE"

And I think the the spin recovery bold face was: "STICK - MAINTAIN FULL
FORWARD, AILERONS - FULL WITH SPIN (TURN NEEDLE), AIRCRAFT UNLOADED -
AILERONS NEUTRAL"

Departures were interesting, but spins were a bad thing!

Off to fly!

Kirk