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Tape the pitot/static system during storage?
On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 5:29:38 PM UTC-4, wrote:
When I tape up the statics and triple probe socket for winter storage, I just prick the tape with a pin or knife point. I'm not sure it's necessary but I just don't want to worry about it. Chip Bearden I taped them all with my red 3M electrical tape and pricked the hole spot with a pin. Thanks for all the tips! |
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Tape the pitot/static system during storage?
I 20 years, I've never taped the pitot, the glider sitting in its trailer.
Last week, I had to fly 8 hours across the Alps without an ASI reading - a solitary bee had dropped its eggs into my pitot tube and sealed them over... Now I plug it after landing. On the ground, pressure variations are +/- 30 mbar. Me going with a plugged ASI to 3500 m gives a pressure change *way* bigger than that didn't harm the instrument' it just read fine a couple of days later. |
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Tape the pitot/static system during storage?
I used two short lengths of that day-glo orange string trimmer line, the stuff that has the grooved ridges. Fit in the fuselage static ports and doesn't seal them.
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