The latest Kitplanes had an article by Stein about this nylon tubing and connector system that he’s been using. I really liked the look of it, and wasn’t totally happy with all of the different tubing systems that I’d been using. So I decided to switch to it. A nice side benefit is all of the pitot tubing is […]
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We’ve purchased a nice chrome heated pitot tube from Spruce. We’ve elected to go this route as we hope to fly the plane in instrument conditions, which might include brief periods in icing conditions. While the plane is not equipped with deicing equipment, we need to maintain the flight instruments if we encounter ice and […]
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Rather than go with the factory’s rather ingenious static system, whereby they embed some AL tubing in between the fuselage skins and then drill small holes in them, we decided to go with production units. We did this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, many pilots were mentioning that they had to install a “trip […]
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