1001001
Well Known Member
My plan for installing the static system tubing was to bring the tubing from the starboard static port up over the top and down to the port static port, and then tap off the line between them to go forward to instrumentation. This would allow any water that enters the static ports on each side to drain back out the port rather than be retained in the tubing.
The other day I was looking around the tail cone of my Mooney 201, and saw the configuration in the attached image. I can't understand why they installed the tubing the way they did--it seems tailor made to get water into the static system. What you can't see in that picture is that there's another tee that goes down to the altitude encoder, which would be basically guaranteed to be wet if water got in the static tubing through the ports.
Any idea why they'd do this this way? I'm still sticking with my idea of tapping off the static tubing at a high point...somewhere around the area that I've highlighted, or preferably higher.
The other day I was looking around the tail cone of my Mooney 201, and saw the configuration in the attached image. I can't understand why they installed the tubing the way they did--it seems tailor made to get water into the static system. What you can't see in that picture is that there's another tee that goes down to the altitude encoder, which would be basically guaranteed to be wet if water got in the static tubing through the ports.
Any idea why they'd do this this way? I'm still sticking with my idea of tapping off the static tubing at a high point...somewhere around the area that I've highlighted, or preferably higher.