Aerotime
JUNE 23, 2025
The flight crew initially received a cockpit indication that the first officer’s anti-ice system had failed, along with a ‘Pitot Standby’ message. Aircraft are fitted with pitot tubes to assist in providing air speed data to the pilots.
Pilot Institute
DECEMBER 12, 2024
These two simple features power three of the most important cockpit instruments. This setup is called the pitot-static system. In this article, well break down how the pitot-static system works, what it measures, and why its so important. Key Takeaways The pitot-static system measures airspeed, altitude, and vertical speed.
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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.
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.
Flying Magazine
MAY 29, 2025
Operational accessories like pitot tube covers, rotor tie-downs, and exhaust covers are also included. This Bell 505 includes five seats, dual shoulder harness seat belts, sliding windows, automatic door openers, and Bose headset adapter, along with usual safety items such as an ELT and cockpit fire extinguisher.
Pilot Institute
JULY 11, 2025
That’s the speed your airspeed indicator shows based on ram air pressure in the pitot tube. Monitoring Mach Number in the Cockpit Since IAS fails to accurately estimate speed at high altitudes, pilots switch to the Mach scale to manage their speed once they’re in a high-altitude cruise.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 27, 2025
A deadheading pilot named Dennis Fitch came up to the cockpit to help. Air France Flight 447, for example: The first officer stalled the airplane after all three pitot tubes iced up, and it fell, still stalled, for a minute and a half without anyone figuring out what was happening. An uncontained failure of the No.
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