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Old 2nd March 2009 | 14:17
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TyroPicard
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A320 Probe Heat

One pushbutton (pb) on the overhead panel controls all probe (pitot, AOA, TAT) and window heat, static ports. Normally in AUTO - the AOA probes would have been heated when one engine running or a/c in flight. Can be selected ON - all heat then on. There is no off selection possible it's either AUTO or ON.
There are three independent Probe Heat Computers (PHC) which control and monitor, and provide warnings for each individual sensor. They are grouped into CAPT,F/O, and STBY probes - so a heating failure/overheat to two AOA probes would show as two ECAM warnings provide by two PHC's.
There is no mention of ECAM warnings in the report.

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Do you think the BEA would have mentioned Dual Input on the sidesticks? It is very relevant to any AB FBW event.
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