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Old 6th Jan 2013, 14:39
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Chris Scott
 
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SYMMETRY of PROBES

A33Zab,

What next...? Thanks.

Just wondering if flash2002's post should be duplicated on the A330/A340 EAD (AoA PROBES) thread, which is currently moribund.

And I remain curious as to if and how the respective probes seem to pack up (due icing) more-or-less simultaneously. Unless it’s something to do with this:

“...I sometimes used to ponder, during my walkrounds, on the pros and cons of locating Pitots 1 & 2 at precisely symmetrically-opposite positions on the fuselage (Pitot 3 being the odd one out). Then I would remind myself that the same applied to the AoA probes. It seemed to me that this might be a recipe for (roughly) simultaneous ice accretion of numbers 1 & 2.”

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