X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 14:03:46 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from web51001.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.132] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with SMTP id 1087055 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 01 May 2006 08:44:08 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=206.190.38.132; envelope-from=bu131@swbell.net Received: (qmail 56158 invoked by uid 60001); 1 May 2006 12:43:22 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=swbell.net; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=K9OMmGquAIdHd20I1VO0VhjZfqKPKtst0E+lULCbueBu9XgLPJF/utKL8w/uCVjUDkR54x7ZK+EI35Fgas5UB1jYCBZCxsJakIjmaJtFfWdQf0oFdwwx3evi4bhdGhWjihABIKCAu7fBPf0Agmd3wUSy14ARQ7bvRCvlf99ZWSY= ; X-Original-Message-ID: <20060501124322.56156.qmail@web51001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.142.172.171] by web51001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 01 May 2006 05:43:22 PDT X-Original-Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 05:43:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Dr Andre Katz Subject: aoa X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit true story: IFR flight plan late landing at night at Watsonville, CA never been there before, no ILS approach circle to land due to winds icing at 2500 feet, panel lights went not functioning, aoa very visible but busy in the approach, poor visibility of runway due to marine layer, very short runway ahead, on the 90 degree turn to the runway despite 100 kts on the a/s indicator undershoot runway so wing loaded imperceptible immediately "angle, angle, push!!!! released immediately pressure on the stick not looking at all at the instrument panel or airspeed or aoa, just visual warning, warning went out, landing safely afterwards. do not even argue about it, get one, first thing we put on the rv-8 we are building, aoa... stay safe andres