Piper pilots beware !

[Cessnaflyer]

There was a King Air in Archer.

I really need to watch this show. I get hung up though because I watched Bob's Burgers first and all I can hear now is Bob.

 

[Cessnaflyer]

What are you talking about? Every airline aircraft that has the ability to fly as fast as you mention has heated probes.

 

[T-Swift]

I didn't have my coffee apparently [emoji20]

 

[RickJames]

We've all been careless at one point or another. Betcha ain't gone do that again.

 

[BaronPete]

Does anyone watch Silicon Valley? This thread reminded me of the mean "pitot" jerking math problem they were working on at TechCrunch. Tell my story if I get bant for linking video. It's not safe for work!

 

[ppragman]

A Navajo or Saratoga is still faster on average than a twin Cessna or a 210 because the Cessnas spend so much time up on jacks.

This reminds me of the data stationwagon.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

 

[Autothrust Blue]

In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever touched a pitot mast, from my time in small airplanes to flying ones where they will burn your skin right off.

 

[Cessnaflyer]

In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever touched a pitot mast, from my time in small airplanes to flying ones where they will burn your skin right off.

I usually touch ours putting on the cover after the flight. There was one time the heat was left on. Now I really make sure to double check switches after exiting the runway.

 

[Roger Roger]

The real scary part is when you throw the handle and the plane starts torquing around on the jacks, that and making sure you jacked it up high enough that the wheels would clear the ground.

We generally would unlock the gear and then swing them through by hand to make sure they would clear first.

Been there, done that. Only thing so far that approaches that level of "there are so many ways for this to go bad" has been hoisting a Caravan on and off of floats.

 

[gotWXdagain]

This reminds me of the data stationwagon.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

That comic perfectly describes my life at some of the more remote crew houses.

 

[FloridaLarry]

My bird has some tubes called the pitot
Which work, except when there's sleet-o
So I turn on the heat
which melts it, quite neat!
My airspeed is now quite magnifico.