Originally Posted by
EXDAC
Total BS! I have many many hours racked up at high bank angles in narrow core thermals, some quite close to the ground, and many very close to stall speed. I'm not dead yet. The airpane doesn't know how close to the ground it is and, absent significant wind gradient, it performs just the same at 500 ft as at 5,000 ft.
I also have no concern at all using 45 degree bank in either of the SEP I own and fly. If the yaw string or ball is centered there is no hazard with steep bank angles. If you can't keep the yaw string or ball centered you are dangerous at any altitude and an bank angle with or without an engine.
Yes well an ATR isnt a poxy glider or a SEP, and any commercial pilot who wants to keep his job and stay alive wont fly a twin turbo prop slowly with 72 passengers on board at a 45 degree angle of bank, 400 feet off the ground while coming into land.
Oppps sorry, I forgot, they did try to do that and now they are all dead.
I will quite happily fly 90 degrees of bank or more, but my fully aerobatic SEP weighing 1500 lb is nothing like a 49000 lb twin turbo prop ATR 72.
Oh and increasing the bank angle increases the wing loading and that increases the stall speed, and after 45 degrees it increases it a lot faster.