voretaq7
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The folks responsible for the electronic stall warning on many of our Pipers (Safe Flight Instrument Corporation) have apparently announced a new toy - an angle of attack sensor/display system based on the same kind of lift detector/transducer assembly their stall warning system uses.
It's not TSO'd yet, but I think it's something worth watching - with time this device might be TSO'd and possibly even work its way up to being an STC replacement for the simple on/off switch type of stall warning many of us fly with.
There's a lot of potential for improvement over our current stall warning systems (it could still flash the stall light or sound a buzzer, but the visual AoA data lets the pilot optimize their angle of attack & gives better feedback than "Hey, you're going to stall").
It's not TSO'd yet, but I think it's something worth watching - with time this device might be TSO'd and possibly even work its way up to being an STC replacement for the simple on/off switch type of stall warning many of us fly with.
There's a lot of potential for improvement over our current stall warning systems (it could still flash the stall light or sound a buzzer, but the visual AoA data lets the pilot optimize their angle of attack & gives better feedback than "Hey, you're going to stall").
