An angle of attack indicator offers a visual indication of the amount of lift the wing is generating at a given airspeed or angle of bank. The AOA delivers critical information visually or through an ...

If you want to get a good discussion going in the crew lounge, ask your fellow pilots how they use angle-of-attack (AOA) instrumentation, assuming they use it at all. We did that recently with a ...

Angle of Attack indicator is shown on both the Aspen Avionics EFD1000 primary- and multi-function displays at top. Credit: Aspen Avionics The General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) believes ...

LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — ICON Aircraft released details this week about its Angle of Attack (AoA) system, a safety feature that will be standard on the company's A5 Light Sport ...

Boeing on Sunday said that a key alert system linked to faulty sensors was sold as an optional feature on Boeing 737 MAX planes. Boeing has taken heat in recent months, following the crash of Lion Air ...

Pilots of the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 which crashed after take-off from Jakarta last year would not have received an alert regarding the disagreement between the angle-of-attack sensors, because the ...