We got smart a little to late, but now we put tape over all of the ports on the gliders at the end of each days flight ops. We use a nice bright color to help remind people to remove the tape prior to flyin.
Denny ... SF Bay Area, Ca Serge VIDAL <serge.vi...@sagem.com> wrote: And is there any known way to prevent water ingress / moisture ingress into the pitot and static lines? (I like the word "static line". It brings back fond memories of military jumps! ;-) ) Serge Vidal KR2 "Kilimanjaro Cloud" Paris, France Dennis Mingear Envoyé par : krnet-boun...@mylist.net 2005-05-23 15:57 Veuillez répondre à KRnet Remis le : 2005-05-23 15:57 Pour : KRnet cc : (ccc : Serge VIDAL/DNSA/SAGEM) Objet : Re: KR> airspeed calibration I couldn't agree more with this statement. We recently went through this with our club gliders. Someone thought that it was a good idea to use low pressure air to blow the water out of the static systems, not! Static lines were blow apart in several difficult to impossible to get to places in the gliders and water was forced into several instrument systems. You never really know whats in the line and the repairs can be really expensive, so be careful. Denny ... San Francisco Bay Area, Ca Oscar Zuniga wrote: And never, ever blow into your ASI or the tubes leading into or out of the pitot-static system! Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html "I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic." Scott Ritter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html "I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic." Scott Ritter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com