self test for pitot static system?
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Europe
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self test for pitot static system?
A LH Cargo 772 recently took off with the two main static port lines not connected after maintenance. Clogged, capped or frozen Pitot tubes have caused air plain crashes.
Is there no self testing system commercially available or has been proposed that would detect major leaks, unconnected lines or closed ports to the outside world?
https://www.bfu-web.de/EN/Publicatio...ublicationFile
Is there no self testing system commercially available or has been proposed that would detect major leaks, unconnected lines or closed ports to the outside world?
https://www.bfu-web.de/EN/Publicatio...ublicationFile
Join Date: Dec 2020
Location: Norwich
Posts: 12
A LH Cargo 772 recently took off with the two main static port lines not connected after maintenance. Clogged, capped or frozen Pitot tubes have caused air plain crashes.
Is there no self testing system commercially available or has been proposed that would detect major leaks, unconnected lines or closed ports to the outside world?
Is there no self testing system commercially available or has been proposed that would detect major leaks, unconnected lines or closed ports to the outside world?
Join Date: Dec 2020
Location: Norwich
Posts: 12
A pitot static system is a physcial thing. It needs an external test device to prove it. That needs a competent person to do the test. I would never operate a Drunk test set without the training. B1.1 . Not passed the levels of knowledge to be proved as competent.