intercepting radials and flying DME arcs with a jet

[skycoolie]

Rainboe

I appreciate that Rainboe. That's why I used 180kt. A rate 1 turn at a TAS of 180 kt means turning at 25 degrees of bank. A jet is limited to 25 degrees of bank maximum for IR procedures. A rate 1 turn (3 degrees per second) cannot be achieved in MS Flight sim at the same speed of 180 kt when it should be able to.

At 120 kts, a rate 1 turn requires 19 degrees bank

At 250 kts you would need 32 degrees of bank

At 450 kts, you wouldn't need 90 degrees, but rather 52 degrees of bank

And all of them are supposed to traverse 180 degrees of a circle in 1 minute. MS Flight Sim is unable to duplicate this. It's radius of turn is way to wide to be realistic, at any speed!