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In this work we investigate students’ thinking about and difficulties with incompressible, steady pipe flow. There is substantial evidence that students have difficulty applying and prioritizing the two basic principles of mass conservation (i.e., the continuity equation) and energy conservation (i.e., Bernoulli’s equation). When distracted by questions which involve gravity students based their answers on ill-supported assumptions about local pressures. The predominant arguments use a simplified Bernoulli equation, descriptive arguments or analogies to single-particle motion. Based on these results, an instructional intervention is developed that seems to address the observed difficulties.