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Old 13th Dec 2018, 12:19
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meleagertoo
 
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Originally Posted by hunbet
  • You can clearly see in first picture that both pitot tubes are plugged with bird parts,the aoa sensor has stuff wrapped around it and the tat probe has bird parts hanging from it.
There is debris hanging from the bases of all the pitot masts but it is quite impossible to tell if any are actually plugged. One or more might be certainly, but it can't be seen from that photo.
Masts will collect debris sliding back after an impact elsewhere but that doesn't go into the tube's mouth itself.
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