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PilotjohnS 02-27-2018 10:35 PM

Heated pitot
 
Even flying VFR, if I am flying below a cloud deck up in the northern states, sometimes the pitot will get moisture or something a little colder inside. The heat drives out the moisture and any inadvertant icing. I have been a follower of Vlads adventures and when he went to Alaska, he stated in his writeup that the airspeed went wacky for a time without a heated pitot tube. JMHO

RV6_flyer 02-28-2018 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FitzRX7 (Post 1242732)
So, maybe I?m just a simpleton, or a guy with a -4 that doesn?t have room or weight for extra things, but why do folks install heated pitot on our planes?

I?m just curious, after a couple hundred hours in my plane I was pretty confident operating it sans airspeed in nearly any conditions, and now especially with a really nice ground speed readout and easily accessible surface wind speed data on the G3X. Makes a non-pitot approach even less of a pulse-raiser. Is it just peace of mind for some folks?

-Fitz

Some people also have redundancy in their systems. FAR 91.205 does not require a heated pitot or for that matter only applies to EXPERIMENTAL aircraft when operating NIGHT and or IFR.

Never used pitot heat in the last 20-years and or over 3,300 flying hours in my RV. Yes I did use pitot heat once in a Mooney on an IFR approach during that time but only once.


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