Detecting and Preventing Pitot-Static System Failures The pitot-static system, which measures both static and dynamic air pressure, is the foundation of important flight instruments. Inaccurate ...

The malfunction resulted in the "aircraft pitching up and deactivating its autopilot", said the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ground crew monitors the 125-foot cable attached to this U.S. Naval Test Pilot School UH-72A Lakota as it prepares to carry a trailing pitot-static device aloft for the first time during a flight ...

A malfunction in the pitot-static system of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800 is likely to have led to a “technical issue” which saw the aircraft pitch up and subsequently lose altitude.

The thin metre-long tube protruding from the nose of every aircraft would be a thing of the past once the Photonic-based system is commercialised. The air pressure measurement device – Pitot ...

Preliminary analysis of flight-data recordings from the crashed Saratov Airlines Antonov An-148 indicate that the heating system for the jet's pitot-static pressure sensors was not operating at ...

Static electricity may cause pitot static probes to fail, according to a Cessna Citation X owner-pilot who survived a simultaneous failure of all three pitots during a flight earlier this year ...