On Apr 17, 11:06 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
In a turn, a portion of the lift produced by the wings must be used to
accelerate the aircraft laterally, and this portion of the lift is no longer
available to maintain the aircraft's altitude. Thus, without any adjustment
of pitch or power to compensate, any turn will result in a loss of altitude.

All pilots know this and assume that a "turn" includes compensation,
unless they specifically say "descending" or "climbing".

So when you keep saying "a turn will always descend", you just confuse
your readers... especially the ones who don't follow threads closely.
You're in a pilot newsgroup, which means the prevailing terminology is
that of pilots, not necessarily engineers, civilians, or whomever.

Kev