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Christopher's Web Site
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Date: 11-20-2015
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Number of Hours: 1.50
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Manual Reference:
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Brief Description: Pitot Tube Installation
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Okay…funny story…
I agonized for weeks as to where the pitot tube should actually be located and mounted. I looked up every photo of a Safari that I could find. I researched the 300 CBi’s I used to fly and compared placement. I asked Bobby (Safari) for guidance when I was out in Florida. In the end, I just took my best guess using an average of the other ship’s locations. It sticks out just in front of the frame, but a good distance behind the bottom of the bubble. Who knows if I’m correct…
The funny part is that I was lying under the helicopter taking precise measurements to make sure that it was as strait as possible in relation to the forward direction of the helicopter’s movement. I finally had it positioned where I wanted it, and the friction of the sheet metal was holding it perfectly in place because I hadn’t yet deburred the penetration on the belly. It was now ready to mark, drill, and cleco in place.
Like a jungle cat (not) I crawled out from under the helicopter and admired my work before assembling the tools required to finalize placement. Just then, my wife Dawn came into the shop and sat next to me on the floor in front of the helicopter. As soon as she saw the pitot tube, which happens to be pretty much the only part of an aircraft that she remembers from a Flying Companion course she took a few years ago, she got really excited, grabbed it firmly and moved it back and forth like a windshield wiper saying, “Hey, isn’t this the pitot tube?!”
Back under the helicopter I go….
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Drilled and clecoed in place
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Best location guess
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