From: RWolf99@aol.com
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:20:08 EDT
Subject: Re: lancair.list V1 #172
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
Reply-To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
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In a message dated 10/3/00 0:25:34 AM EST, lancair.list@olsusa.com writes:

<< The question is now should I install a second static port or an 
 alternate air source in the panel.  I am inclined to do the latter and am 
 looking for a suitable port that is professional looking and 
 reliable.  Your thoughts on this question and where it can be obtained 
 would be helpful. >>

I had thought that we had two static ports on the two-place Lancairs to (1) 
even out position errors when there was a sideslip on the airplane and (2) 
provide redundancy if one port were to be plugged.

The manual is quite specific about where the static ports should be located.  
Great effort (well, some effort, anyways, ranging all the way from CFD 
analysis and wind tunnel testing at the top end down to trying several 
locations are seeing what works at the bottom end) is spent on determining a 
point on the airplane where the local static pressure matches the ambient 
static pressure throughout the flight envelope.  Lancair has done this for us 
and we should follow their recommendations.  It's in the manual.

One could plumb in an alternate air source, or simply reach behind you and 
yank the tube from the sidewall fitting if truly desperate (of course, that's 
harder to do when a hose clamp is on it).  I'd put my effort into a moisture 
trap before I worried about alternate air.  If you were really slick, you 
could have a valve behind the seat which empties the moisture trap and also 
lets the alternate air in.  Put it on your preflight checklist and you'll 
dump any water every time you fly.

I have neither a second static port nor an alternate air source in my humble 
IFR Cessna 150 and have never felt at risk.  They say I'm to break the glass 
on the VSI but I'd probably cut a finger artery and bleed to death on the 
approach, so I'm not gonna do that.  (Now I'll stand back and listen to all 
the guys who have had static port problems and see what they say....)

- Rob Wolf
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