Aerotime

APRIL 3, 2025

This permitted the Trident to be guided automatically to an airfield, approach the runway, flare, touchdown, and then roll out from the landing runway without a pilot interfering with the controls. These inconsistencies caused the autopilot to disconnect.

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Weight-Shift-Control Cockpit Pilot Stability 154

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

We also got the correct pitot tube, and itʼll get painted and installed so a static check can get done…thanks Kurt Grasso for the part! Photo via Adam Estes But on October 16, 2018, just after takeoff from Livermore Airport for a routine training flight, the Pratt & Whitney R-985 radial on N59842 sputtered and quit.

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Pitot Tube Cockpit Pilot Hangar 111

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In fact, the unusual pitot-tube location—it peeks out from the center of the prop spinner—was chosen to reduce fuselage-to-wing connections. So the temptation is to fly too fast and float down the runway, which the RV-12 will do for quite some distance. With a 41-knot stall speed, the common 1.3 Vso approach speed is 53 knots.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 98

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ram air from a pitot tube and static (undisturbed) outside air from a static port, usually a hole on the side of the fuselage. Airspeed indicators need air from a pitot tube and static air from a static port Small general aviation aircraft have airspeed indicators with air hoses connected directly to the pitot and static sources.

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Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed Knot Altimeter 52

Northstar VFR

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Mostly affects runways found next to bodies of water. You encounter icing, and your pitot tube completely ices over, but your static port remains open. Because static pressure is now trapped in the iced-over pitot tube, and is greater than the static air pressure, your airspeed indicator starts to speed up.

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Longitudinal Axis Pitot Tube Checkride Pilot 59

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

There was a nice crosswind, and I demonstrated landing on a concrete expansion joint, offset from the runway centerline. Then off to the other runway for a full stop. Repairs included replacing the pitot tube/angle-of-attack sensor and the outside air temperature probe. I could tell that this had the CFI’s full attention.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 81

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It can also disrupt sensors needed for flight safety, like the pitot tubes. If ice blocks a pitot tube, your aircraft’s instruments will provide inaccurate airspeed readings. Most aircraft are equipped with a pitot heater to prevent icing in the pitot tube.

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Pitot Tube Drag Lift Airfoil 52