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Re: Europa-List: Pneumatic Installation

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Pneumatic Installation
From: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:50:12

Jos
Stall ALWAYS occurs at the same AoA, never at the same airspeed. PLUS, 
the ASI will tell you you are about to stall when it's too late, you 
already have. AoA gives instant response and tells you AoA has changed 
so ASI is now going to change but not for 20 seconds or so. The airplane 
has inertia so does not change speed instantly.
All relevant speeds vary with weight, temperature, pressure etc but AoA 
does not, it is consistent.
Imho, ASI is a secondary flight instrument, useful for navigation, AoA 
is the primary one, or should be.
Graham
btw there are two stall conditions, flaps down and clean, not the same 
but you knew that anyway ,,,,,,,,,,,

josok wrote:
> A second thought is that i am not really interested in AoA, because especially
in the Europa, the AoA varies greatly between flyable speeds between 50 and
150 knots. It's the stall that i am interested in, and that has little to do 
with
the Angle of Attack. But please correct me if this makes no sense!
>
> Regards
>
> Jos Okhuijsen
>
>
> Visit -  www.EuropaOwners.org
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