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Garmin AOA Easy to Install, Reasonably Priced

Garmin’s angle-of-attack system can be installed under simplified FAA policies that encourage adoption of safety equipment.

Garmin’s angle-of-attack indicator offers a simple display of critical information. The $1,499 system consists of the GI 260 angle-of-attack indicator, the easy-to-install GAP 26 probe and GSU 25 air-data computer.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

November 14, 2015

The FAA has made it much easier for aircraft owners to install angle-of-attack (AOA) indicating systems in light aircraft, and avionics manufacturers have responded with relatively low-cost products that could help prevent loss-of-control accidents. AIN recently flew in Garmin’s AOA-equipped A36 Bonanza to see how the company’s AOA system works.

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