How To Clean Out Pitot Tube

Dynon101

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My pitot tube got blocked with some kind of bug residue. It is not the typical mud type blockage but looks more like bee pollen.

After I remove it I wanted to get some advice on how to clean it out.

I tried to blow it backward from the ADAHRS downward to pop the blockage out of the front of the pitot tube however my compressed air would not blow through so I need to remove the unit and clean it somehow without damaging it. The AOA probe is also plugged.

It's amazing I'm in the hangar practically everyday you think I would have noticed some bugs digging in there. Shoulda Woulda Coulda kept the cover on it
 

Dynon101

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I think that I got it figured out!!!

I lowered the pitot probe from the wing and placed the dangling pitot probe in a bucket of hot water and waited a bit. Then I used compressed air and shot it down from the open end of the flexible tube from where the ADAHRS connection is and finally the blockage was opened up just a bit and the water soaked back farther and then I did the compressed sir trick again and it acts like a pressure washer for the inside of the tube...
 
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