Approach Cockpit Pitot Tube 
Aerotime
JUNE 23, 2025
According to the Aviation Herald, the aircraft was climbing through 34,000ft (10,363m) over the Indian Ocean and approaching Indonesian airspace when the issues began. The flight crew initially received a cockpit indication that the first officer’s anti-ice system had failed, along with a ‘Pitot Standby’ message.
Aerotime
APRIL 3, 2025
Even the most automated aircraft, such as the Airbus A350, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and the F-35 military jet, come with such instruments fitted as standard should an electrical failure affect the more modern cockpit display screens. These three levels of control are ascending in their level of aircraft control and capability.
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Plane and Pilot
MAY 31, 2025
Suddenly, one of the Airbus three redundant pitot tubes clogged with ice crystals. While some wreckage was recovered within days, it took nearly two years to retrieve the flight and cockpit voice recorders from the ocean floor. 1 is to maintain flying speed.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 27, 2025
A deadheading pilot named Dennis Fitch came up to the cockpit to help. That approach and landing really deserved to be called a miracle. An uncontained failure of the No. 2 engine had destroyed all three of the airplane’s hydraulic systems, disabling its flight controls.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
Combining the data shown on your cockpit instruments helps you make better judgments. One example is Indicated Airspeed (IAS), which is the airspeed you read directly from cockpit instruments. It works by reading the difference between static pressure and total pressure from air flowing into a pitot tube.
AV Web
MAY 20, 2025
Knowing what to do ahead of time helps prevent the kind of in-cockpit panic that can lead to paralysis by analysis and other undesirable human factors. The base had switched runways from Runway 35 to Runway 17, so that when I came back into the base I was approaching the traffic pattern from the north. No one did that, by the way.
Flying Magazine
JULY 11, 2025
Zooming onto the aluminum skin of the DC-6 reveals that no pitot tube, landing gear strut, or antenna detail was ignored in its construction. This allows the DC-6 to be flown by both the novice and advanced sim pilot, making the DC-6 approachable despite the complete systems modeling.
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