Pitot/ Static Placement
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Re: Pitot/ Static Placement
Kevin, thanks for the info. I'm still hoping to hear ideas for a quick disconnect for the wingtip nav/strobe lights. Anyone have a solution?
Fred
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Re: Pitot/ Static Placement
Interesting. I wonder if there is any certficated airplane that has a static port in the wing? If it works'well, it would be an excellent location even for pressurized airplanes. The only issue is it makes preflighting it for blockage more difficult, but then you can have a big or multiple static tube openings, which would make blockage highly unlijely.
I will have this dillema in a few weeks as I'll be advancing to the left wing. For the moment, I've sourced a lightly used pitot off a piper with a built-in static port. It's compact, sturdy and was a bargain. I also plan to try a an AOA port in the form of a pulled rivet looking about 60 degree down at the wing edge -- there are some successful experementations with this design on RV-12s.
I will have this dillema in a few weeks as I'll be advancing to the left wing. For the moment, I've sourced a lightly used pitot off a piper with a built-in static port. It's compact, sturdy and was a bargain. I also plan to try a an AOA port in the form of a pulled rivet looking about 60 degree down at the wing edge -- there are some successful experementations with this design on RV-12s.
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Re: Pitot/ Static Placement
Fred,
I have one airplane with the static line vented to the cockpit and it works satisfactorily. Only problem, if you want to call it that is that the static instruments, namely airspeed and altimeter will jump slightly with a change in cabin pressure for example when an air vent is adjusted open or closed. My second airplane has the static line running half way out inside of a wing panel and it is"static", no problems, no changes ever. The wing IMHO is true static air, should not be any significant airflow out there.
Kevin
I have one airplane with the static line vented to the cockpit and it works satisfactorily. Only problem, if you want to call it that is that the static instruments, namely airspeed and altimeter will jump slightly with a change in cabin pressure for example when an air vent is adjusted open or closed. My second airplane has the static line running half way out inside of a wing panel and it is"static", no problems, no changes ever. The wing IMHO is true static air, should not be any significant airflow out there.
Kevin