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Steve Glasgow

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 674

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: Airspeed

Cappy's Toy has been a little sluggish lately.  By this I mean she just did 

not feel normal in approach, sometimes a slight buffet early and higher than 

normal descent rates at  normal approach airspeeds.  Almost like an approach 

to stall.  I started to think about Reno Red's original problem with 

airspeed (indicated reading high) and checked the B nuts on my pitot static 

system today.  I was able to tighten all of them a bit and miraculously 

everything was A-OK again.



I think I was indicating higher than actual and this was making me slower 

than normal during approach.  It seems like a leak in the pitot would cause 

the opposite effect but all I can say is it fixed Reno Red's problem and now 

mine.



I bring it up to remind everyone to check these at annual inspection time. 

I failed on to do so on my annual in November.



Cappy

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