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Old 19th September 2007 | 21:49
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john_tullamarine
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.. and, if you get caught out ... a bit more bank into the operating motors will lower the Vmc significantly ... won't do much for climb .. but anything (potentially) is better than going in upside down or cartwheeling after digging in a wingtip ...

The effect of bank is quite pronounced .. don't have much quantified data to hand but, as an example and subject to the limitations of my recall over the intervening years, one many-engined military beastie operated by a far off land has something like a 30-40 knot difference between 5 degrees bank one way and the other ...
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