Joined the club today........

tom wrote:
The one time I took off with a non-functional ASI, it was because the
pito tube was blocked by this big red thing that stated: "REMOVE BEFORE
FLIGHT". Fortunately, I had enough time in that plane to fly
confidently without the ASI.
tom

Yeah, only time that happened to me was in a twin. Still not sure what
caused it, probably ice. The really bad thing was that the ceiling was
about 700 feet and there was no way I was going up in that with no
airspeed indicator in a twin.

As to why we continued the takeoff after realizing the airspeed was not
functioning? We didn't look at it right after adding power, and by the
time we realized it wasn't working, it seemed too fast to pull power and
stop on the (short) runway. Live and learn.