AOA with integral static port

lolachampcar

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The plane I am building uses a wing mounted pitot tube with integral static (resides just behind the pitot and consists of several holes around the OD of the Pitot/Static tube just behind a raised shoulder - Aspruce sells it as the Raven Pitot Static tube).  This same designed is used on a similar (certified) aircraft.

I would like to use the AOA and would like to know if Dynon has tried adding a slightly larger tube over the AOA probe then sealing the front with a bushing to create the shoulder then placing multiple holes around the OD just behind the shoulder as a static port.  In affect, this would be the same as the probe used on the certified aircraft only slightly larger in diameter and having AOA.

I looked at the probe drawing in the installation manual iand it seems to indicate that both the AOA and Pitot aluminum lines are attached to the probe tip.  If this is the case, then it would seem possible to place a slightly raised lip a few inches down from the leading tip, drill several holes in the current tube's ID and use the existing tube as the Static port as well.  Has this been tried?
 

dynonsupport

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Static built into (on the sides of) the pitot tube can well on some aircraft, and terribly on others. Very often the latter. Static position error is already almost always the smoking gun with IAS issues in the Dynon fleet, and so we're really hesitant to offer a product that compounds that issue. So I don't think there's much chance that we'll offer a pitot/aoa/static, and haven't done any product development around it either since we knew about the above issues from the outset of the AOA/pitot product development.
 
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