Originally Posted by
FGD135
For the remainder of the turn, the aircraft is in continuous yaw and continuous pitch.
Originally Posted by
Horatio Leafblower
NOT CORRECT!
Yaw is rotation around the normal axis. In a constant bank, the normal axis is tilted at a constant angle. The aircraft turns, yes, but if the aircraft was in fact in a yaw during a turn its nose would be increasingly below the horizon, as if the pilot had used (and held) too much rudder in the direction of turn.
Ummm, yes, he has it *exactly* correct. The airplane is both yawing and pitching. in a banked attitude, the vertical component of yaw which would tend to cause the nose to drop below the horizon is counteracted by the vertical portion of pitch.
It's just silly to say that an airplane doesn't yaw during a turn. How else can the nose point in a different direction without yaw??? ( Aside from a 90 degree banked turn, in which the heading change would be all pitch)