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by0ung(at)brigham.net
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:02 am Post subject: pitot static

This effect caused a very low and nervous first flight for a friend in his

new Mark III.  He had mounted a commercial combined static/pitot probe on

the front of his nose cone.  It was about 6 " long which is more than

enough for a wing mounting but in front of the much larger radius nose

cone put it in stagnant air.  The resulting low pitot pressure had him

thinking he was on the verge of stall all the way around the pattern when

it turns out he was doing over 80 mph.



Tom Kuffel

Whitefish, MT

Building Original FireStar

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Tom it was good to read your comments.   



I did about the same thing when I first flew my mklll.  As I remember the

pitot  worked ok but the static pressure was high...  by disconnecting the

static tube and letting it vent inside the nosecone things were much closer

to normal..     I then moved the pitot static tubes to under the nose cone

to correct the problem..

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