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Old 6th June 2011 | 15:43
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EEngr
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Conservative engineering

I suspect that the continued use of pitot-static airspeed indication is due largely to the conservative nature of aircraft engineers. The operation and failure modes of these systems is well understood. So unless there is some major advance in reliability or performance, there's no justification for incurring the high certification costs to bring out something new.
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