pitot tube down

Tarver Engineering wrote:
With aircraft equipped with GPS that shows your true speed, can you fly by
it when pitot tube is down?

The Captain's static port on the 757 had duct tape over it. The FO side was
working just fine, so there was not much excuse for crashing.


As I recall, the trim settings are the same for cruise and with full flaps. I
had a bug invade my pitot tube once in a Piper Lance and just muscled the
airplane from cruise until I had all the flaps set on approach. I never touched
the trim. I have no idea how close I was to target airspeed but the resulting
landing was quite normal. The airspeed indicator was dead the whole time.



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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
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Tarver Engineering wrote:
With aircraft equipped with GPS that shows your true speed, can you fly
by
it when pitot tube is down?

The Captain's static port on the 757 had duct tape over it. The FO side
was
working just fine, so there was not much excuse for crashing.


As I recall, the trim settings are the same for cruise and with full
flaps. I
had a bug invade my pitot tube once in a Piper Lance and just muscled the
airplane from cruise until I had all the flaps set on approach. I never
touched
the trim. I have no idea how close I was to target airspeed but the
resulting
landing was quite normal. The airspeed indicator was dead the whole time.

Panic seems to be the reason people don't think their way out of these kind
of single point failures. I have to winder if the pilot didn't expect to
have to do more than raise the wheels and adjust the flaps.

Tarver Engineering wrote:

Panic seems to be the reason people don't think their way out of these kind
of single point failures. I have to winder if the pilot didn't expect to
have to do more than raise the wheels and adjust the flaps.
One of your series connections is open circuit, Tarver,

As a congenital idiot who couldn't learn to fly an aircraft in a
thousand years your statment above pretty much defines the level of your
knowledge of aircraft operations ... zilch.

Rick

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Tarver Engineering wrote:

Panic seems to be the reason people don't think their way out of these
kind
of single point failures. I have to winder if the pilot didn't expect
to
have to do more than raise the wheels and adjust the flaps.

One of your series connections is open circuit, Tarver,

As a congenital idiot who couldn't learn to fly an aircraft in a
thousand years your statment above pretty much defines the level of your
knowledge of aircraft operations ... zilch.

Since the FO's air data was correct, one can only believe you post from
ignorance, Rick. Robots fly 757 airplanes most of the time, but sometimes
the pilot has to operate.

I beleive UAVs are the way of the furture in the Military sense of the word
aviation.