I always maintained altitude and rate of turn in steep turns with the
end result being hitting my own slipstream.

As have we all on nice days, and students like to brag about it. Yet
Mx is correct, in theory we should not be able to do this.

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No, Mx is not correct. Mx has restated a *partial* explanation of wakes as
complete, and many here are accepting it--even though their own actual
experience proves otherwise...