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Old 14th Mar 2019, 21:57
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Lonewolf_50
 
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Originally Posted by Photonic
I don't have that info, but as a general comment on sensor reliability, up-thread somewhere there is a post by a NG pilot mentioning that a bird strike took out an AoA vane on one of his recent flights. Obviously the sensor should have the highest possible MTBF, but the system as a whole needs a safe method to recover from a sensor that can be taken out that easily, and that randomly.
100% concur on system robustness requirement.
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