Originally Posted by
flynerd
How about a pitot design change that enables them to be momentarily rotated 180 degrees and thus enable them to be self clearing? It could get rid of covers, mud-dobber nests, ice, insects.
Flyn.
Because that type of design would allow the pitot to rotate in flight at some point, probably with a greater frequency that pitots become clogged, or covers are left on...
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I am trying to find a way that our guys in the front got to rotate without noticing the discrepancy, is there a chance, at all, that the covers were already defective and allowed air in due to a break in the fabric, either before the flight or due to being pushed hard against the inlet and after rotating the relative airflow changed the position of the cover over the inlet and subsequently blocked the impact air..... I am very obviously clutching at straws, but it just seems so much more plausible than the idea of them not aborting the takeoff due to an airspeed discrepancy.