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mark.bitterlich(at)navy.m
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:10 am Post subject: Angle of Attack (subject change)

Aha... DETAILS!   



Bet you didn't know that on the Prowler, AOA was also fed into the

Central Mission Computer where it was used to correct for impact

pressure errors on the Pitot Probe itself, thus giving much more

accurate inputs for the True Airspeed computation, giving rise to the

question of just how accurate do you want things to be?    



Mark Bitterlich

42 years of A-6's and counting.  

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markdavis(at)wbsnet.org
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:34 pm Post subject: Angle of Attack (subject change)

Mark,

     If it was used on the ICAP with the analog Doppler nav computer, my

normal response to a call of "Steering's good" from the ECMO in the right

seat was "Is that steering to East or West Jesus?"  : )  I developed an

exceptionally good seat of the pants dead reckoning ability working blue

water ops.  My ECMOs finally learned to see if the steering needle was

reasonably close to the nose before they suggested I follow their nav

solution.  Smooth sea states and any altitude over 15,000' over land made

the system pretty unreliable.  Add that to a ship that never radiated any

navaids or radars the ALQ-99 could sort out as part of the battle group, it

made it interesting finding your way back to Mother at times!



Mark Davis

 



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