You are flying along and your airspeed indicator fails

[SixPapaCharlie]

You are at altitude 20 min from your destination (uncontrolled 4k ft runway) and it is Texas so one of those rogue plastic grocery bags has caught some lift and managed to get snagged on your pitot tube.

Curious about the different answers.
I know there are pilots that can feel their way to the ground but it is not something that is specifically taught.

Clearly in the case of Air France, this can lead to a catastrophic chain of events.

I have the stall horn to alert me of getting to slow but I think I might have issues with being too fast.

I would opt for a straight in as I don't want to mess with base - final turns w/ no ASI.


Tomorrow is my BFR and just for grins after, I am going up w/ the CISP to do a bunch of slow flight, stalls at various attitudes and kind of play with that envelope a bit.

What do you do?

 

[Jim Logajan]

I got my tailwheel endorsement in a twitchy little C-150 tail dragged with a broken airspeed indicator. It was great training. Feel the airplane, fly the airplane. Pretty simple.

I'm sure it was working because otherwise you'd have been flying in violation of CFR 91.205, and that seems unlikely.