Hi Talkdownman, I've just looked at FR24 and, for instance, there is an EasyJet doing Geneva to Liverpool that has been descending all the way from 38,000ft at Leicester, and doing several heading changes whilst descending, to bring it onto RW27 at Liverpool. However it is most likely that the bank angle has been very small in all of the turns.
Also you need to do climbing and descending turns whilst in the circuit, and the only safety aspect is that you don't exceed 15 degrees of bank angle whilst climbing. I think the reason is that you are near your stall speed in the climb, and if you bank too much, you load the plane with too much G which brings up your stall speed (as the square root of the G.) Also at slow speeds 15deg of bank will give you a small enough radius of turn anyway.
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No-body has yet mentioned compasses, and what happens to them in a turn or climb... Maybe that's for another thread.
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