I was watching a re-run on t.v. last night about the AeroPeru 603 crash, where the static ports had been taped over.
The crux of the situation was the conflicting messages that the pilots were receiving from the stickshaker and the airspeed indicator.
Does(did ?) the stickshaker in the 757 have any connection to the static port? If not, how does it work?
It's always easy to second guess, 20/20 hindsight and all that, but wouldn't the ADI have been working properly despite any problems with the static ports ?
AFAIK, a 757, C172 are not *that* different, if at all, and the gyro instruments would not be affected at all in a 172 by a static port blockage. Therefore ... pitch+power=performance ??
Mike