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Old 22nd Mar 2014, 06:29
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Tinstaafl
 
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I can think of 3 reasons:

1. Regulation: The amount of manouvering during the initial stages of a SID is limited by procedure design recommendations to reduce workload & errors during that critical transition phase.

2. Performance based obstacle clearance: If you are already at a maximum performance airspeed, climb rate (and therefore gradient) reduces as bank angle increases.

3. Navigation based obstacle clearance: Turn radius (and therefore ground path radius) reduces as angle of bank increases.
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