Hi all,
Only SLF here, but one with reason to be flying to Brazil 3 times per year, and so have been watching your ruminations with great interest.
Just a quick question and then I will return back to the cheap seats.
Why can't the Pitot Tubes have a second, back up set recessed into the body of the aircraft and kept warm as toast and free of crystals, if/until required and deployed much in the same way the RAT is?
For a multi-million dollar aircraft moving 200 odd people about the planet, would that really represent a financial cost too far for manufacturer and customer alike?
It's been bothering me for a while that one.
Thank you for your time. Now slipping back into the undergrowth.