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From: Franklin on 8 Jun 2010 22:28
Hello folks,
May I please ask some advice...

I suffered a near miss yesterday when flying my modified and restored
Beechcraft 18 twin engine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:00910460_026.jpg

I believe my single pitot tube air speed indicator (glued to the
underside of the fuselage) suffered a similar incident to the Air
France flight AF447 Airbus A330 which went down over the South Atlantic
a while back on its way back from Rio to Paris.

Yes, you've guessed it - at 33,000 feet my pitot tube became frozen up
with supercooled water-ice in some stormy weather. Immediately this
happened, all my air flight control systems shut down one after the
other and I was left fighting to regain control to prevent the craft
going into a stall and plummeting south.

Fortunately, I have been flying for many years and I'm an expert pilot,
so I managed to land the craft safely on a nearby potato field in Idaho.

My question is can I do anything to the pitot tube to make it safer and
prevent it from freezing up with ice in the future? Should I install
some sort of heating element to prevent freezing, although I note the
A330s already have three heated pitot tubes and it didn't seem to help
that flight too much.

All advice appreciated. Email me if you prefer.


Franklin
(normally posting to alt.comp.freeware)

From: uɐɯ ɐɥɔʇıɐpɐʞ "u?? on 9 Jun 2010 14:47
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:10:41 +0200, Franklin wrote:

> Do you have any suggestions about my pitot tube and the supercooled water
> problem?

Turn your sim off.

> Franklin - pilot

*LOL*


From: george on 9 Jun 2010 16:51
The funny bit is
"my single pitot tube air speed indicator (glued to the
underside of the fuselage) "
All that technical detail
ROTFL
From: Morgans on 9 Jun 2010 17:40

"george" <gblack(a)hnpl.net> wrote in message
news:ad0bb698-6588-420d-8924-acd3671975d1(a)s6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> The funny bit is
> "my single pitot tube air speed indicator (glued to the
> underside of the fuselage) "
> All that technical detail
> ROTFL

Hard to imagine that a pitot on a d-18 is not heated. Hard to imagine that
he got a d-18 up to 30 some thousand feet.
--
Jim in NC


From: george on 9 Jun 2010 19:59
On Jun 10, 9:40 am, "Morgans" <jsmor...(a)charterJUNK.net> wrote:
> "george" <gbl...(a)hnpl.net> wrote in message
>
> news:ad0bb698-6588-420d-8924-acd3671975d1(a)s6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > The funny bit is
> > "my single pitot tube air speed indicator (glued to the
> > underside of the fuselage)  "
> > All that technical detail
> > ROTFL
>
> Hard to imagine that a pitot on a d-18 is not heated.  Hard to imagine that
> he got a d-18 up to 30 some thousand feet.

My favourite in that was the air speed indicator glued to the
underside of the fuselage.
Makes VFR and IFR just that little bit more difficult

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