Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I have several thousand hours in a turbine airliner with an AoA indicator. It never comes into play if you fly the profiles,
Which, IMO, would be the situation that would provide the fewest opportunities to use and realize the value of such a tool. You even admit that you don't use it on a regular basis. So, if flying an airliner with an AOA gauge is the sum total of the experience you're using the make these judgments, I'm not surprised about your attitude.
The OP's question was directed at the use of AOA in a GA training environment - not 121 ops.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
... and they didn't really train us on it's use in abnormal situations.
Not surprising. We've had it for years at FedEx and it's just recently began to be incorporated into the very few scenarios that might require (or at least benefit) from using AOA.