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Are you referring to AF447? According to the BEA incident report, the AF447 plane was already equipped with heating systems for the pitot probes and AoA sensors
by presto8 7y ago
Are you referring to AF447? According to the BEA incident report, the AF447 plane was already equipped with heating systems for the pitot probes and AoA sensors.
"1.6.9.1 Probe heating
The probes that are installed on the aircraft are heated electrically to remove water
by vaporisation when the aeroplane is on the ground and to protect them from icing
in flight."
Reference: https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp090601.en.pdf https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp09060...
- rurban 7y agoRight, I mixed that up. With AF447 the initial problem was not the AOA but the very common pitot tube icing, which renders the airspeed indicator useless, thus leading to wrong stall warnings. Even if the pitot tube is heated (mandatory), very often airframe icing leads to a blocked static port, rendering even more indicators useless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot-static_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot-static_system