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Posted for Jeff Peterson
<jeffreyb.peterson@gmail.com>:
LML: Would
it be possible for some one (or several pilots) with a flying 360
to measure the actual stall angle of attack for a few flap
settings? I am tinkering on the bench with AOA circuits
and considering adding an offset for as a function of flaps up
versus down. But, I would like to know if this really
is needed. After all, many thousands of airplanes
do have stall warnings that do not include flap
input. If my 360 was flying here is how I would make
the measurement. attach an "angle locator" to the arcraft,
aligned with a longeron. rig a video camera to record the
locator. Fly a few stalls, but be sure to hold altitude in
the lead up to the stall. Then review the tape on the
ground. Perhaps someone out there already knows the
answer to my question: by how many degrees does stall angle of
attack shift?
-- Jeff Peterson L
360, buiding the panel
[This has all been done, it's
already on the market in the form of the Advanced Flight Systems (used to
be Proprietary Software) AOA instruments. Those instruments assume
that you have a new airfoil the instant you add flaps. That's why
there are two databases, one for flaps up, one for flaps down.
Different folks trigger the flaps down at different amounts of flap
deployment, although "any" flaps is sufficiently different from "no"
flaps to trigger the change in database. As there are an infinite
number of flap settings, the decision to handle this info in this manner
was taken to avoid information overload and unnecessary complexity.
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