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Old 25th Nov 2022, 13:24
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Pilot DAR
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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.
These values correspond well to values I saw during repeated spin testing I did in a Caravan many years ago. The dive following recovery got me to 175 - 180 KIAS, and pulling 2.5 G (I installed a G meter for this testing) kept me from a faster speed that that. Had I not pulled the 2.5 G, I would have substantially oversped the plane.

This is the recorded G following my last spin of that session, which had been a near Vmo recovery





Here's a video of one of the spins


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