OK so it looks like Cat 1 for the F16 is NOT a fixed AoA but starts off at 25.2° at 1G then tapers off to 20.4° at 7.3G, I am guessing to prevent departures from max roll commands at high
AoA.
Anyone know of an aircraft without any such trickery or automatic lift devices or thrust vectoring with an actual definable stall break that has turn performance charts prepared for it? I am guessing not if the reason they are prepared in the first place is due to these aircraft sufficiently departing from the simplified POF formulas...
So are we back accepting that Max Rate = Min Radius as per the calculators and believing that stall speed increases to the square root of the increase in load factor even out to 8-10G?
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Cat 1