Thanks also to A337 for the refresher pix of the static ports.
The A330 has an apparent up to 300 ft static port correction at low airspeeds. This is not unusual, but at a greater AOA than stall warning, the static pressure is sure to increase to the point the static ports nearly become pitot ports.
Rather than, "What's it doing now?", the more I read the more I question, Why did they design it that way?"
the place of the pitots is even sensible, the "static" pressure is not constant over the different places of the fuselage.....the selected place for the pitot is the first place with a static pressure near zero for "normal flight" .....up front is the static pressure higher, behind he is lower, this place is a very good place because the different between the mesured static- and the pitot-pressure shows(indicates) good the airspeed,
with higher AoA the pressure in the static port will get up, (and the correction for the speed) with higher AoA s converted into very difficult.....or impossible
but this is also a chance for an alternativ speed indicating system.....the fuselage itself works like an half-pitot probe...the flow accelerates at the side of the fuselage, and with the different static presure between to different points over the front of the fuselage it must be possible to indicate the speed without a pitot probe!, and the static probe will be not so delicate against ice or ash or insects like a pitot-probe.....