East River turning radius

On Oct 15, 11:34 am, "Peter Dohm" wrote:
Close, but not exactly. The geometry might cause a to be trivially more in
a descending turn and trivially more in a climbing turn. However, during a
constant rate climb or descent, a 60 degree bank will be very close to
2Gs--for a typical standard or utility category airplane which can maintain
only a modest angle of climb or descent.

I don't have a G-meter on my plane, so all I can tell is from the
feeling in the seat of my pants, but if I'm doing a 90 degree turn
banked at 60 degrees and I'm willing to lose 500 ft in the process, it
feels like quite a bit lesss than what I experience when I don't want
to lose 500 ft in the process... I do this quite often when coming back
to my home airport from the south... Fly over midfield at 1500 ft until
I nearly intercept the downwind leg... If no traffic conflicts, drop
the left wing to 60 degrees or more while making a 90 degree turn to
downwind, losing 500 ft in the process...

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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On Oct 15, 11:34 am, "Peter Dohm" wrote:
However, during a
constant rate climb or descent, a 60 degree bank will be very close to
2Gs--

I don't have a G-meter on my plane, so all I can tell is from the
feeling in the seat of my pants, but if I'm doing a 90 degree turn
banked at 60 degrees and I'm willing to lose 500 ft in the process, it
feels like quite a bit lesss than what I experience when I don't want
to lose 500 ft in the process...

Right, because you're accelerating downward. But if you perform a
constant-rate descent instead, you'll feel the usual 2 Gs.

--Gary