Cover 'em up.Crew chiefs, in cold weather, you can't do your best if you're not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered. up. The same goes for your bird's pitot tubes. Mr. Freeze can bit your bird like a ton of bricks in the mountains of Afghanistan or in the Iraqi desert at night. Always cover the tubes when cold weather heads your way. If you leave the cover off in cold weather, moisture will get inside the tubes and freeze. Ice in the tubes means your airspeed indicator An instrument which displays the indicated airspeed of the aircraft derived from inputs of pitot and static pressures. will be thrown off. Do you wanna' know how fast your Black Hawk, AH-64A/D A/D See advance-decline line (A/D). , Kiowa Warrior and Chinook Chinook, indigenous people of North America Chinook (shĭn  k`, chĭ–), Native American tribe of the Penutian linguistic stock. is flying? Then keep your pitot tubes covered! When it's not cold, it's a good practice to leave the covers on 24/7 for protection when the bird sits on the flight line or in the hangar. NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU'RE DOING, KEEP THE PITOT TUBES COVERED! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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