German to English Tech/Engineering Energy / Power Generation gas turbines

The subject matter is a compressor of a gas turbine, and the only translation I can find is "initial guide blade" or "initial guide vane". Although "Vorleitrad" is understood to be "inlet guide vane", I wonder if "Vorleitschaufel" could be the same thing, or could the latter be the first stage stator blading, although if this were to be the case I would have thought it would have been defined differently.