When you break formation to recover on to base leg for landing, could this ever involve more g – or a lot of it for longer – than the display itself? I've always assumed that, by definition, you are dumping speed at idle thrust, so any high g would be too short-lived to induce g-lock. But you might pull a lot momentarily for positioning purposes. Is that correct?
In level flight g is equal to the reciprocal of the cosine of the angle of bank. It is unrelated to airspeed. A 60º inclined turn in a PA28 at 120knots gives the same g as a 60º inclined turn in a Typhoon at 500knots - that is to say 2g.