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Old 16th June 2009 | 15:22
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Mike-Bracknell
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Pitot Icing

I have a question:

When you get pitot icing, how quickly does it occur? i.e. is the state of the pitot from reliable to unreliable a binary one? or does it show some degradation of service which allows you to consider icing as an issue?

Also, does pitot heating always work or is it sometimes overwhelmed by the icing conditions?
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