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We need more than a "little training" with an AOA system. Anyone who flies any aircraft, particularly a high performance aircraft, needs to be very proficient in stall awareness and recovery. Training is the answer, not another trinket in your cockpit.
From: "terrence o'neill" <troneill@charter.net>
Reply-To: "Lancair Mailing List" <lml@lancaironline.net>
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: SUMMARY OF LANCAIR ACCIDENTS IN NTSB DATABASE
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:35:46 -0400
SUMMARY OF LANCAIR ACCIDENTS IN NTSB DATABASEJeff,
Thanks for the Lancair accident update.
Note that of these 126 Lancair accidents, 54 included fatalities, and 24 of the accidents definitely resulted from a stall/spin -- the last pilot-controllable event before the pilot pulled his wing past its stall AOA and became a doomed passenger.
Note that a wing of a trimmed a/c will not stall unless the pilot pulls the stick back too far, causing his aircraft to pitch up to a stall AOA...
which he unintentionally does because he cannot SEE the realtive wind and his wing's stall AOA.
A sad, unnecessary waste of friends' and families lives, beautiful aircraft, and years of creative work, all for the lack of an inexpensive AOA indicator and a little training to develop habitual use of it.
Terrence O'Neill
L235/320 N211AL
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