<![CDATA[Pitot Blockage disables the Pitot heat]]>In the B58P, I just got a Black Square failure for Pitot Tube Blockage and I am unable to turn on the pitot heat to clear the blockage.

]]>https://community.justflight.com/topic/9708/pitot-blockage-disables-the-pitot-heatRSS for NodeFri, 10 Jul 2026 19:29:57 GMTSun, 07 Dec 2025 20:40:04 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Pitot Blockage disables the Pitot heat on Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:59:10 GMT]]>@Black-Square Ok, great. Is it too late to be considered for some maintenance?

]]>https://community.justflight.com/post/45518https://community.justflight.com/post/45518Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:59:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pitot Blockage disables the Pitot heat on Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:58:05 GMT]]>@MiRexer Thanks for your reply. I wish that was the case as it would be an easy fix.

]]>https://community.justflight.com/post/45517https://community.justflight.com/post/45517Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:58:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pitot Blockage disables the Pitot heat on Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:36:41 GMT]]>From a post on exactly the same topic for the Duke:

Wow, you're absolutely right about that. It appears to be a bug/"feature" of the flight simulator, as the input event "K:PITOT_HEAT_TOGGLE" is completely disabled when there is a pitot blockage. Given what I have seen under the hood of MSFS, I suspect that behavior has been there since at least the early 2000's, if not the early 90's. I've been contemplating creating my own elaborate simulation of pitot-static effects, which would solve that problem as a side-effect. Thanks for pointing it out.

]]>https://community.justflight.com/post/45513https://community.justflight.com/post/45513Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:36:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pitot Blockage disables the Pitot heat on Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:21:59 GMT]]>Are you using a Bravo throttle? You probably have pitot heat bound to that and it's overriding your turning it on. You can tell if a binding is overriding it by looking at your current draw - does it go up when you turn on your pitot heat? If not then a hardware binding is overriding it most likely (happened to me).

]]>https://community.justflight.com/post/45511https://community.justflight.com/post/45511Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:21:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pitot Blockage disables the Pitot heat on Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:32:54 GMT]]>After I landed, I cleared the failure and the pitot heat switches were still frozen.

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