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Old 11th Jul 2018, 05:56
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Not really Nige - plenty here are convinced that he overstressed the aircraft which will inevitably cause a failure downstream and that he should have declared the overstress and had the aircraft inspected and grounded himself.

Now, if we had seen a video of the same pilot executing a level, steep turn to get to the cliff, would there have been such outrage?

A sustained 45 degree AoB turn is 1.4G and a 60 degree bank turn is 2G - both well within the RFM but both would do far more damage if poorly flown - there are no limits on rate of application of pitch or AoB in RFMs and that is where the stress is put on the airframe, especially the twisting on the tail boom with the mass of the TR and TRGB on the end of it.

Would the outrage brigade be calling for the same censure of a pilot who regularly uses steep turn for positioning (and possibly some fun)?

Despite the definitions of aerobatic manouevres, we are not talking about rolls, loops, pedal or Tq turns here - just a wingover............
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