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Old 10th August 2001 | 16:22
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Tinstaafl
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Just of the top of my head, I think you'll find that once established in a steady state descent ie not accelerating vertically, that the load factors are unchanged.

Change the condition to one where the a/c is accelerating downwards eg just starting a descent, then the trigonometry for it would 'simply' involve subtracting the downwards acceleration from that due to gravity & using the resultant net vector added to the centripetal force vector.

I think (but can't recall exactly) that the formula is:

....tan AoB
LF=---------
....'g'

or some variant of those terms. Too lazy to work out the maths correctly.

I'd say the the 'g' term would be replaced with the net result of gravity's accel - the a/c vertical accel.
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