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Old 25th November 2022 | 13:01
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Originally Posted by PJ2
Any thoughts on how the 'g' loadings in the turns might be calculated?
There appears to be no CAS data in FR24, only GS, (and no bank-angle, of course).
Problem is that the critical part of the the ADS-B track seems inexact and cut short.
The circle before, leading up to the speed going down to around stall speed is rather unsuspicious. It has a radius of ~700m at a (Ground)speed of 100-130kts with a slight descent. This would equal to a g- load of ~1.2g.
Towards the end of the circle it climbs ~300ft and (ground) speed decays from 130kts to 55kts which energywise (trading kinetic energy for potential energy) almost perfectly matches the altitude gain. This would indicate a pull up at low power/idle. Up to that point the trace looks reasonable and credible for a test flight.
After that I wouldn't put too much trust in the remaining part of the track. It does look like a stall being recovered and a subsequent high speed dive possibly with an initiated pull- up..

And now for some musings:
If we would take the figures as they come (with the usual ADS-B caveat):
The acceleration is on the high but possible side for a steep dive out of a stall: G/S increases within 6s from ~40kts to 140kts, Descent rate reaches 14kfpm. Along the trajectory this would equal to an average longitudinal acceleration of ~1g (speed ~200kts). Descent rate then decreases within ~3s from 14kfpm at G/S of 140kts (would correspond to a dive angle of 45°) to around 9kfpm at a G/S of 175kts (corresponding to dive angle of 27°). This pull- up would produce an average g load vertical to the flight path (I assumed 35° angle as reference point for normal gravity) of ~2.3g.That doesn't say anything about peak loads, though. So besides general inaccuracies and having only G/S instead of airspeed this neither contradicts nor confirms a possible overload and/or overspeed in the dive or pull- up. Speed and descent rate both appear high, though.

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