Beech Baron, AoA probe centered under the nose. This is a really good place to locate it. An easy installation. Yes, it works perfectly well here:
Or out under the wing, in clean air, mounted on an inspection panel of a Beech 58 Baron: |
Under the radome on a Pressurized Beech Baron 58:
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Our retired Marine and NAS PXT-trained test pilot looking at an S35 Bonanza, starboard side. This is a newly-opened inspection panel; it's a really good place with lots of void in the bay above it.
Al Aitken installed the Legacy AoA in his F33 Bonanza, too. |
Here's another S35, with the AoA probe on the port side aileron bellcrank inspection plate:
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A 1974 F33A with the TKS deice system; this starboard side inspection plate was pre-existing; AoA probe was mounted forward of the spar (which already had a convenient pass-through hole for the sense lines): |
Looking aft at the AoA probe in a factory inspection hole of a H35 Bonanza, The AoA probe is 5" outboard of the Pitot Tube. That's about as close as one should go (left/right), due to air burble off the pitot. The AoA probe needs to be in undisturbed air.
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Here is a sensor probe mounted on a Piper Arrow at Liberty University's Freedom Air Flight School. One of three Arrows equipped with AoA, this aircraft is used for CFI standarization and for training students to the CFI ticket.
Hooray for them! This superb flight school "gets it". |
And another early Bonanza. Nicely done!.
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NEVER FORGET that a AoA Display will NOT improve any aircraft's performance, not even a little bit! But an AoA will provide sufficient additional information to give the pilot confidence to operate safely closer to the airplane’s limits…and the AoA will enable a pilot to extract all--or, at least: far more of--the airplane's available performance. An AoA can definitely make a good pilot better and enable him to fly more precisely.
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