FAA issues SAIB 2024-07 to strongly suggest that all planes be fitted with an AOA indicator

[Eddie Cesnalis]

https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID117071009620241226214236.0001

I have it enabled on my EFIS but I have never got in the habit of referenceing it on approach.  Do many of you find it to be intuitive?

[Anticept]

It's in a bad place for me to be referencing on approach.

It would be helpful if it was on a hud

[S4Flier]

The Garmin G3X has the AOA near the airspeed vertical tape so it’s pretty much in any scan that includes airspeed.

[Skunkworks85]

3 hours ago, Eddie Cesnalis said:

https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID117071009620241226214236.0001

I have it enabled on my EFIS but I have never got in the habit of referenceing it on approach.  Do many of you find it to be intuitive?

I definitely pay attention to the aural alerts!! 

 

[Madhatter]

I have a Jabiru 230D with Garmin GI260 AOA indicator separate from the G3X EFIS. I've never used one until now. After re-calibrating it and learning to use it I wouldn't want to be without it. No need to look at the airspeed on approach,  everything is there in front of you. It also accounts for flaps up or down.

[B9525]

On 1/1/2025 at 12:33 AM, Eddie Cesnalis said:

https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID117071009620241226214236.0001

I have it enabled on my EFIS but I have never got in the habit of referenceing it on approach.  Do many of you find it to be intuitive?

I have D100 with AOA alrm , I feel it works fine to me. Normally , i don't pay to much attation to AOA which shows on EFIS sreen , but few times. when I was busy on something during approach, I didn't pay to much atattion on airspeed, the AOA alarm just starting "stall stall" on my earphone, than I looked to air speed, it was pretty low. BTW. I set AOA alarm start working at bottom yellow , it is nosy me sometime when I take off. But it really help when I am slow. 

[Madhatter]

The main advantage to me is I don't have to look down for airspeed.

[Towner]

I have it on my d100 too, but never bother to look at it. I didn’t realize it can be set up for audible alerts though, which I’ll probably figure out how to turn on and give it a try.

I agree that to be visually practical, it has to be in your line of sight looking out the window like the one in the picture or a hud.

I actually really like the idea of the audible warning as long as it’s not going off to early and becoming a nuisance.

[Tom Baker]

Some of the early CTSW's were not wired for the AoA audible warning.

[Towner]

35 minutes ago, Tom Baker said:

Some of the early CTSW's were not wired for the AoA audible warning.

Thanks. Probably my luck since I’m in a 2006.

[Eddie Cesnalis]

1 hour ago, Towner said:

Thanks. Probably my luck since I’m in a 2006.

yes my 06 didn't have it, my 07 does.   obviously different pitot tube.

[Madhatter]

Garmin's AOA can be used as a stand alone system.

[Skunkworks85]

Fun fact, 

 

If you have the HS34 or the AP74, you can have voice alerts instead of just tones. 

[procharger]

I am looking at air speed and runway nothing else. Been doing it 14 years that way

no more extra gauges for me.