aero wing has in pofile has a tri-chanel so it looks like a mercedes symbol in profile. This provides a hollow structure which gives it some natural bouyancy.
I use it for winging as in little spinner patterns.
I do an emerger?stuck dun pattern as follows.
I lay it along the length of the hook starting at the eye end bedding it down to the post position. Hook a loop up, for parachute hackle and then take the aero wing down the fly reducing it by degrees by snipping bits out, till it gets to the tail, creating a tapered profile. I then leave about a hooks length as a stuck shuck.( this is a stuart crofts pattern).
Re floatant I use gink sparingly if at all after fishing I clean off my flies and dab them in Water Shed.
The simplist pattern I do with it is the two minute sedge>
On the photo I have pushed the wing up so you can see the work I have also done it 'up stream' It doesn't have to be.
I simply hold the end of the aero wing on at the tail end,
Give it a few securing whips, and half hitch,
Run some tight 'open' turns to the head of the fly,
Bring the thread back down to the thorax position.
Run a wee pinch of dubbing like Pine Squirel or Hares Ear on the thread.
Bend the Aero wing back and give a few turns of dubbing.
Clean the thread either add some varnish and whip finish.
Or dont use varnish on the whip finish but leave a little tag of thread a few mm
Wing pushed up for photo!!
This is the CDC version done the same way but the 'wrong way round'
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I am only posting these to illustrate this point I dont pride myself for neat flys and would normally humiliate myself this way!! My apologies to any one offended at this blattant hook abuse!
What floats best . . . .
Danny
Looks like a bit of water shed will be the order of the day and not too mean or slim in the use of the aero in the pattern . 
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