A Level 1 AOA clarification

"Ramapriya" wrote in message
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Depending on what kind of plane you are flying, you may get good use out of
your shoulder harness if you add power just before or during a stall. While
you probably could delay the stall by adding power, it will eventually
happen if you do not lower your attitude. In most cases, that is.
Don't know much yet about this but I'm sure I saw the AOA indicated in
an A320 cockpit recently. I thought the pitch itself indicated AOA but
when the captain showed me the actual AOA reading, it varied by a wee
from the aircraft's pitch. He had to punch some buttons into the flight
computer to get the AOA reading.

That is because the aoa depends on the relative wind. The relative really
does not have much to do with where the ground is, or what your attitude is.



Need to read up John Denker's book and the FAA material a lotttt more,
I guess :\

Ramapriya