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Forum: Tech Log

8th Jan 2013, 17:22

Replies: 183

A330/A340 EAD (AoA PROBES)

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Posted By Chris Scott

A33Zab, Thanks for quoting David Learmount’s...

A33Zab,
Thanks for quoting David Learmount’s piece from a month ago. The rest of us have been a bit slack in missing it, and I didn’t even know he had a website.

Looks like freezing of trapped...

Forum: Tech Log

7th Jan 2013, 22:18

Replies: 183

A330/A340 EAD (AoA PROBES)

Views: 74,126

Posted By Chris Scott

Reading between your lines, do I detect a whiff...

Reading between your lines, do I detect a whiff of doubt that the AoA blockage was ice of any kind/origin?

Re the recovery: just a few initial thoughts, with hindsight from my comfy armchair.
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Forum: Tech Log

6th Jan 2013, 23:38

Replies: 183

A330/A340 EAD (AoA PROBES)

Views: 74,126

Posted By Chris Scott

Symmetric positioning of PROBES

I wrote this here a few days ago, and repeated it yesterday on the “How safe is (airbus) fly by wire? Airbus A330/340 and A320 family emergency AD” thread (on Tech Log):

“...sometimes used to...

Forum: Tech Log

1st Jan 2013, 11:00

Replies: 183

A330/A340 EAD (AoA PROBES)

Views: 74,126

Posted By Chris Scott

Dozy, Thanks for the useful gen on the Thales...

Dozy,
Thanks for the useful gen on the Thales probes, and the conic plate mods.

Inconveniently, neither of the accidents you mention were caused by icing of a heated pitot probe, as Lyman and...

Forum: Tech Log

31st Dec 2012, 12:47

Replies: 183

A330/A340 EAD (AoA PROBES)

Views: 74,126

Posted By Chris Scott

A33Zab, Thanks for producing, as usual, such...

A33Zab,
Thanks for producing, as usual, such superb pictures (and apologies for my late acknowledgement).

This is a much more subtle mod than I had imagined. The 1960s VC10 AoA probes, which were...

Forum: Tech Log

29th Dec 2012, 22:48

Replies: 183

A330/A340 EAD (AoA PROBES)

Views: 74,126

Posted By Chris Scott

Conic Plates

According to the EASA EAD, these new-fangled "conic" plates could be either factory fitted or retro-fitted to both the Thales and Goodrich AoA probes. Can anyone explain their purpose? To prevent...

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