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The Pitot-Static System: How It Works

Pilot Institute

If you’re in a modern, fancy airplane with glass primary flight displays instead of round dials, then it uses something called an Air Data Computer to show these readings. To find True Airspeed (TAS), youll need to account for these effects. Cool, right? How Does the System Give Inputs to the Altimeter?