Your right, it can be a problem, you just have to make sure that it's part of your preflight inspection.
Denny ... Orma <o...@aviation-mechanics.com> wrote: "We use a nice bright color to help remind people to remove the tape prior to flying." As an old military mechanic we used to place tape over the pitot and static system during aircraft washes. As the plane was turned over to the mechanic for wash, the status of the plane was changed to grounded and recorded in the aircraft flight forms, so that no pilot was allowed to fly the plane until it was verified that the tape had been removed. Placing tape over the pitot system is a dangerous practice. All general and military aviation pitot static covers have long red streamers stating REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT. Without that extra effort there is always a chance that tape will be missed during preflight. Orma _______________________________________ 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!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.
