Originally Posted by
sevenstrokeroll
canuck...since when has a 60 degree bank been aerobatic? exceeding, yes...
Unless you're a flight test pilot, you have no business there when piloting a transport aircraft. I've got 200 hours or so in 172s and Cherokees, and about 20 hours in the engineering sim for a certain widebody airliner I work on (basically has everything a level D sim has but without the motion--we use it for testing systems behavior through various flight conditions). I can tell you that as easy as 60 degrees is in the little guys, doing that maneuver in the widebody is not something that should ever be done in real life. I don't remember exactly how much, but I lost at least a thousand feet when I rolled to 60° and right back to level flight in a clean configuration. Can't even imagine how it would be with the flaps and gear out and at 1.3 Vso
even the 707 was rolled
Yes, clean high and fast. Do you know how much altitude they lost in that maneuver?