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So the kid who has his Pitts in my hangar got checked out by Finagin and came out to fly his Pitts. On take-off he reported back that his ASI was not working.
After he landed we did some searching and found that the pitot tube comes from the strut and then switches from hard plastic to soft tubing for about 5 inches and then switches back to hard plastic..... Is this normal?
I grabbed some fuel tubing I had for my Challenger and cut a 7" piece and we put it back together like it was.
The old tubing was so brittle that is snapped in half easily and when I stepped on a piece it crushed and stuck the the bottom of my shoe like a bug.
After he landed we did some searching and found that the pitot tube comes from the strut and then switches from hard plastic to soft tubing for about 5 inches and then switches back to hard plastic..... Is this normal?
I grabbed some fuel tubing I had for my Challenger and cut a 7" piece and we put it back together like it was.
The old tubing was so brittle that is snapped in half easily and when I stepped on a piece it crushed and stuck the the bottom of my shoe like a bug.
