Here is 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".
 
My old friend Randy Tucker is Crew Chief at Freedom Air. He reported "...just putting the finishing touches on our first AoA install of one of our Piper Arrows, the install went very smoothly and I believe on the next two aircraft we should be able to cut the installation time in half."
Here is Kenny Painter, a CFI at Luray VA, about to wrap up his clever installation and neat glareshield mount of a mechanical display on his Decathlon... |
The inside of some Decathlon wings are completely  blocked with fuel tanks...so Kenny ran the sense tubes down the inside of the open strut!
The strut fairing hides the tubing entry and exit points. Clever!
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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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