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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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