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- 22 Oct 2019, 00:54
- Forum: Lockheed Vega 5 Support
- Topic: Pitot/static mixup
- Replies: 1
- Views: 856
Re: Pitot/static mixup
Well, looks like a random gremlin. Airspeed indicator remained frozen at zero after fixing the static blockage (debug had static 0.0, cockpit static 0.0, pitot 0.0) and no blockages reported on debug (nor airspeed indicator marked failed on debug). Landed and used "Fix all problems" key to no effect...
- 20 Oct 2019, 02:14
- Forum: Lockheed Vega 5 Support
- Topic: Pitot/static mixup
- Replies: 1
- Views: 856
Pitot/static mixup
Gentlemen: Recently flew a leg where the airspeed indicator never increased from 0 and remained at 0 for the duration of flight. Upon landing, maintenance discovered a blockage in the primary static port. The pitot and cockpit static ports were both ok. The static source selector was in the static (...
- 31 Aug 2019, 16:17
- Forum: Lockheed Vega 5 Support
- Topic: Oil issues
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3537
Re: Oil issues
Follow-up: after an overnight pause (same flight as the above-described) I immediately got the "random empty" bug -- debug was indicating 25L in the tank last night, now 0L, lowering system pressure, and high system temperature immediately following unpause this morning. Beginning to strongly suspec...
- 31 Aug 2019, 05:19
- Forum: Lockheed Vega 5 Support
- Topic: Oil issues
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3537
Re: Oil issues
Just experienced a similar problem -- oil pressure racing toward the tens of millions and temperature dropping to -101C (and counting). This occurred inflight, although the symptoms didn't appear until after I resumed flying following an approximately 1 hr pause. Might it be possible that pausing th...