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If there are momentary differences when right near the critical AOA, then you will get wing rock. The same situation as if you've ever done a "falling leaf" or "full aft stick stall". One will fall and the other one won't. And, as you know if you've done those things, you can still control...

You asked why it was better than a "simple stall horn", and I gave you several reasons. The most significant one is that a horn is a single snapshot of wing lift generation, while an AOA gauge shows the entire performance envelope of the wing. Additional reasons include the other data about...

Again, it has a lot more uses than simply stall awareness. That being said, it is a substantially better stall awareness tool than a horn, and is especially useful when you do need to "max perform" the wing (terrain avoidance, unusual attitude recovery, etc).

Your incorrect assumption is that an AOA gauge is only a tool for stall prevention. A stall horn is a binary indicator of a single point on the wide range of AOA. An AOA gauge is an instrument that can also tell you the best conditions for max range, max endurance, best acceleration, etc, in...

My family wanted less to do with the Air Force than I did, hehe.

How do you figure I have "selective reading"? I didn't say there wasn't controversy about AAMP, I said (in the other thread) that it was in my opinion incorrectly and unfairly maligned. I'm quite familiar with the accident report and the A300 both. None the less, none of those quotes has...

Unless he had already lost control (flight control failure, structural failure, etc) and/or wasn't able to do so (incapacitated due to G forces, medical problem, or the throttle/prop cables no longer functioning, or any other number of possibilities). Impossible to know based on the information...

I don't see any visual evidence of a bomb in the pieces of wreckage we have seen.

Everything doesn't go right. The perfect flight hasn't taken place since Kitty Hawk.

The A300 fleet currently flies with a "Stop Rudder Inputs" warning light, thanks to that accident. In my opinion one of the dumber mechanical "fixes" to a purely pilot-induced problem. Maybe they could have put in a "Stop making bad airmanship decisions" or "Stop crashing the airplane" light...

One of the most humiliating aviation experiences of my life was attempting to hover an MH-60. The pilot in the other seat was quite amused with my performance.

The NTSB report goes into a lot of detail about the FO’s history of overcontrolling the airplane, too.

A close read of both the NTSB report, and a viewing of the video, shows that nothing Capt Vanderburgh advocates for would have led the FO in the AA accident to make multiple rapid stop-to-stop rudder movements (which was the actual root cause of the accident).

Although it is frequently (and in my opinion, ignorantly and incorrectly) maligned, the entire AA Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program video series (including the controversial unusual attitude video) is *excellent*.

It is useful to use caution when going on witch hunts based on information posted in a web forum. On another forum, I received a PM from another member who felt that something I'd posted meant I was some kind of poser: What followed was an amusing discussion, since what this gentleman claimed...

From a technical standpoint, I don't believe that is "flutter" we're observing, rather just the spoiled air coming off the wing buffeting the horizontal stab. I can't speak to the amplitude of the movement, but a lot of GA airplanes have a substantial amount of movement of the horizontal stab...

Plenty of people that expected me to have one and would have attended, but I had my own reasons for not wanting anything.

A shadowbox isn’t always proof of retirement. I didn’t have a retirement ceremony or get a shadowbox, but I certainly have the retirement certificates and the DD214.

Fair enough -- I wasn't trying to be combative either, but just provide a different angle of input to the discussion. Although stalls aren't practiced in transport category aircraft by 121 crews, that's not necessarily the same as not knowing how the aircraft will react in various stall...

The Omega X-33 has been serving me well for the last two decades of professional and recreational flying.