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Old 11th May 2009, 12:50 PM
Mick F Mick F is offline
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Take off would be aborted until the problem is resolved.

However, should the problem not be noticed until too late, and the aircraft becomes airborne, then a return to land would be carried out.

All passenger carrying RPT aircraft are equipped with dual pitot tubes that run on seperate systems, so should one not work, then the other could be used to land the aircraft.

Should both fail, well there's an old saying which every pilot should know, "Power + attitude = performance".

In one of the aircraft I fly, it is equipped with an Angle of Attack indicator, so if both my ASI's failed, I could easily land the aircraft by reference to the AOA indicator.

Mick
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