Hi HN39,
Re the "could they return near to LKP in about 4mins?" issue, you write:
"Perhaps you would like to also look at a spiral dive. For 205t, FL350, M.82 the max. available loadfactor in normal law is n=1.662 corresponding to a bank angle of 53 degrees in a coördinated (no-slip) turn. The drag coëfficient in this condition results in a flight path angle for zero thrust of 6.4 degrees down, or a rate of descent of 5425 ft/min. Radius of turn is 2.6 nm, rate of turn 3 deg/s, so 360 deg. takes 2 minutes."
2 minutes allows quite a lot of "fat", so we don't even need as much as 53deg of bank. Can you or someone else confirm that deliberate bank angles beyond about 33deg (?) can only be sustained by maintaining the stick left or right of neutral throughout the turn, assuming Alternate Law (I forget which version they had) is in operation? Also that - beyond 33deg bank - the pitch-attitude would no longer be adjusted automatically to provide the vertical-axis 'g' (load-factor) appropriate to the bank angle, i.e., the aircraft would tend to fall out of the turn like a conventional aeroplane?