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Old 18th Mar 2022, 07:18
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Lead Balloon
 
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When student pilots are being trained, one of the items they should be trained to check while rolling down the runway is that the airspeed indicator is indicating an increase in airspeed.

1986 in a Cessna 152: "And if we're rolling down the runway for take off, and the airspeed indicator is indicating not much and not increasing, you've probably left the pitot cover on, Lead Balloon, or the pitot probe is blocked (which you should have seen when you did your daily inspection)."

I say again: The stuff up during the truncated ground inspection is one thing. What happened after that is more concerning from a systemic safety perspective.
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