Originally Posted by CoqSim
Is it possible to have conditions that on the one hand overcome pitot heat to clog them up, but OTOH, don't accrete ice anywhere else?
From what I've read in the papers linked in this thread, mostly dealing with engine anomalies in these conditions, I believe the answer to that question must be yes.
I sometimes cannot help thinking, doesn't anybody posting ideas on on this thread about the 'stupidity' of airplane and equipment manufacturers, and regulators, think about the difficulty of finding out what happens. How on earth do you establish in these incidents what ice is accreted elsewhere, what happens inside the pitot tube, why it happens, while so many airplanes fly through the same clouds of ice particles every day without incident, why one type of pitot probe is more resistant (but still not immune) than others?