Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
You didn't read a single link I suggested or any of the series of posts by Fred Scott did you?
If you had - then you would heard what most of the GA pilots were saying about the utility of the AoA instruments currently available at a relatively low cost to the GA community. You don't have to have "grown up with it" to appreciate the benefits. That is a gross overstatement to the training required to effectively utilize it. We're not asking the recreational pilot to use it to the extent, or for the purposes, that the fighter pilots used it on a routine basis.
Btw - I was flying before the military so I wasn't initially trained AT ALL on its use or benefits. It wasn't until T-34C training that I was introduced to it and I could still see the benefits of such information. When I got back into civilian (professional) flying did I find to my surprise that the turbine equipment I was then training on did not have any AoA information available.
Of course I read it. I have no problem at all with people using it if they want to, assuming they are savvy enough to learn how and develop the right habits. Some rich guys who just buy the latest techie fad for their airplanes, thinking that money buys safety margin, are more likely to just get distracted by an AoA or mis-use it.
But if this is going to be the next great leap in GA safety, as some folks advocate, then it will need to be incorporated into early training.
I'm not giving you grief on this; it was jetjoc who was a bit caustic.