Originally Posted by TyroPicard
The pitch rate at the end was about 5°/sec - can anyone convert that to "g"?
Originally Posted by Bis47
That is barely 1.1 g or 1.2 (given the - lack of - accuracy of the pitch up rate).
Yes between 1.1G and 1.2G is what I got, assuming it was doing a perfect circle at 5 degrees/s and 263kts.
Add to that some uncertainties and the 1G standard earth gravitation, you may be close to 2.5G. So it's plausible that they were at load limit.
And at the correct altitude (FL100+) it would have been an "exciting" upset, but with plenty of altitude to recover.
Bernd