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Old 3rd Oct 2006, 05:23
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Luc Lion
 
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Originally Posted by chornedsnorkack
Does a plane in turbulence have to fear changes of airspeed (windshear) or changes of AoA (updraughts and downdraughts)?
The 2 types of changes happen and they have both an impact on g-loading.

g-loading rate of change due to variation of airspeed is 2.g / v
and g-loading rate of change due to changes of AoA is (g.δCL/δv) / CL
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