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18th Mar 2010, 22:32

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Badmachine

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"Radius of turn is a function of bank angle and ground speed."

Could you elaborate? It seems that the "V" in the formula for radius of turn refers to airspeed instead of groundspeed (at least to my knowledge).

Thanks.

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