How come nobody ever states that these G loading increases are for level
flight? Since the glider is always descending, wouldn't it be better to
include something about the descent rate being maintained? What about a
climbing turn? Maybe some trig including the flight path angle?

Curious minds... And it's a slow morning before going to tow at the
Moriarty encampment.

On 6/2/2015 11:48 PM, Surge wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 01:37:42 UTC+2, Bruce Hoult wrote:
I think you'll find that's more like 58 knots.

In a 45 degree turn, the G loading is 41% higher, but it only takes 20% more speed to produce that G loading, not 41% more speed.
You're right.
G-loading would be 1.41G in a 45 degree bank but the stall speed would increase by 1.19 so that would make it 58 knots (107km/h).

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Dan Marotta