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Comment by inferiorhuman

The "light" is just a warning text that appears on the flight display, so the "no light installed" and "light installed but off" states are not distinguishable (as far as I have understood it).

They're absolutely different. If you're a pilot and you expect to see an error message when the two alpha vanes disagree, you'll be lulled into a false sense of security when that text never appears even in the case of a failure.

A pilot needs to be able to trust all of the instruments in the plane.

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