Icon A5 Request For Weight Increase Exemption Status

[kmhd1]

Yes. Everybody is waiting on the FAA to do something.


I hope they didn't invent this all by themselves. There are lots of companies out there that make these things already. Of course, I don't need to mention the additional weight they are adding to put this feature on the plane.

Lots of companies might be making them but not a lot of planes are flying with them. Icon is supplying an AoA as standard equipment. So perhaps one of the innovations here is simply that they are putting an AoA as standard equipment on the plane. In addition, the presentation of the data seems very intuitive as compared to the examples you mention in a subsequent post. I'm sure as with any instrument we would get used to its presentation but the way Icon has designed their AoA it appears more intuitive and much easier to read. Plus the extra touches of having the visual feedback on the gauge for best glide and approach seems like a decent value add.