The market for angle-of-attack indicators has been growing ever since the FAA signed off on a new policy document allowing the safety systems to be installed without an STC. One of the latest such products is from the company that literally invented the angle-of-attack indicator, Safe Flight Instrument Corp. in White Plains, New York. Flying was among the first to try out Safe Flight's SCx AOA indicator, designed for the kit-built and experimental markets. We put the unit to the test in the company's Cessna 172, which paradoxically is one of the airplanes where you can't install it today. But it shouldn't be too long before a version for certified airplanes is available as well.
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