"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
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Tarver Engineering wrote:
With aircraft equipped with GPS that shows your true speed, can you fly
by
it when pitot tube is down?

The Captain's static port on the 757 had duct tape over it. The FO side
was
working just fine, so there was not much excuse for crashing.


As I recall, the trim settings are the same for cruise and with full
flaps. I
had a bug invade my pitot tube once in a Piper Lance and just muscled the
airplane from cruise until I had all the flaps set on approach. I never
touched
the trim. I have no idea how close I was to target airspeed but the
resulting
landing was quite normal. The airspeed indicator was dead the whole time.

Panic seems to be the reason people don't think their way out of these kind
of single point failures. I have to winder if the pilot didn't expect to
have to do more than raise the wheels and adjust the flaps.