PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - RAT and Pitots
Thread: RAT and Pitots
View Single Post
Old 24th October 2010 | 16:33
  #2 (permalink)  
grounded27
 
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,339
Likes: 0
From: earth
Pitot tubes are covered to prevent debris from entering them, poor design if a pitot tube heating element results in icing. There are lots of solutions to historic problems with them. I do not think a pitot tube on a RAT would be easy to accomplish, the pitot tube needs a clean ture source if air to do it's job, the rat is a big propeller that disturbs air.
grounded27 is offline  
Reply