The main reason I was interested in knowing the critical angle is so it would be easy to see how close your aircraft is to stall, particularly on final.

Lately, I don't pay to much attention to speed as i do to the aircrafts attitude and my power setting when on approach. i started off at altitude, and paid close attention to how high the nose was before it began to fall. i repeated the process with lower and lower flyby's.

now when there are winds, i can comfortably come in at a familiar angle of attack, even though my ground speed appears unnaturally slow. Even though the speed looks slow, i know there is plenty of airflow over my wings as i'm about to land.

i guess i was hoping that manufacturers would give the critical angle of attack to make the "feel out" process easier.

power + attitude = performance. Any instrument pilots out there w/ me?