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There was also an accident in a large turbojet aircraft (727?) years ago (as I
recall it was a freighter) where the crew forgot to turn on the pitot heat before takeoff. They were climbing when the pitot tubes iced up, and crew responded to the increasing indicated airspeed by pitching up more and more until they entered a stall/spin. Not good. Needless to say, the crew perished. I went to a (as in one) IFR ground class. The instructor was very good but I simply decided to do it on my own. Nevertheless the one thing i got out of the class was possibly the story above. He showed a clip on a south american passenger transport jet (type?) where they just repainted the plane and they left some kind of tape over the pitot tubes. I would hope a ATP pilot flying jets could at least figure out what is happening when they have a single point failure. Gerald |
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