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.
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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Plane and Pilot
MAY 31, 2025
Suddenly, one of the Airbus three redundant pitot tubes clogged with ice crystals. The final accident report talked about failure of the pitot tube, crew coordination and communication issues, misunderstanding of the Airbus flight control priority system, and the impact of automation surprise and startle factor upon the crew.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
A few minutes later, we heard the center controller clear a Trans Missouri Airlines commuter plane for the VOR Runway 30 approach to Jefferson City. In eight minutes, we would be a pile of bent aluminum in some field short of the runway. I was familiar with this company and knew they flew Cessna 206s and the twin engine Cessna 402.
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.
Fear of Landing
MAY 9, 2025
The captain slowed the aircraft from 104 knots and exited the runway onto a taxiway. First officer : Fff– They exited the runway to the taxiway and the captain shut down the left engine. They taxied back to the runway and began the take-off roll again. He called out that he had no airspeed. First officer : I did.
AV Web
MAY 20, 2025
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. But I somehow had it fixed in my mind that I was approaching from the south, to Runway 35. Never mind the instruments that showed me flying south. All I saw was blackness.
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