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Old 30th December 2000 | 05:41
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G'day,

When writing my own lesson plans for Max Rate / Min Radius turns I found using the formulas to calculate radius and rate useful to demonstrate how changes in AoB and Speed effect the performance. Kinda like using the Lift formula for the first few Ab-initio briefings.

(pls excuse odd formatting)

Radius (ft) = (V^2) / (11.26 tan AoB)

Rate (°/sec) = (1091 tan AoB) / V

where V = TAS in Knots
and AoB = Angle of Bank in degrees.


From these you can quite easily see the performance changes Ghenghis and Smooth Tourquer described above.

HTH

Cheers,


Grade 3