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"kirk.stant" wrote:


Precisely. 70 degrees is about 3 Gs, would give you a turn diameter of a
little less than 200 ft (!) at 55 knots. But I doubt many pilots actually
practice constant 70 degree banked turns, it's not as easy as it looks. Hard
enough to get a lot of pilots to bank over 30 degrees - grrrr!

It sure is fun to rack it up when you find the right thermal - the harder you
pull, the faster you go up! Do it with someone you know across the thermal
and it gets really interesting...

Kirk
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Have had pretty much that experience a few times. Banked very steeply,
pulling hard, watching the guy across the thermal nearly through the top
of my canopy. After a bit, it seems like the gliders are stationary and
the world becomes a blurred, whirling cylinder.

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