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Not even on a rough landing, just banking maneuvers on take off and landing. The prevailing winds and local mountains at my local airport require a banked turn
by takk309 7y ago
Not even on a rough landing, just banking maneuvers on take off and landing. The prevailing winds and local mountains at my local airport require a banked turn of some sort for almost every flight. I can usually feel the banking in a typical passenger plane. Imagine what it would be like in the seats furthest from the rotational axis of the plane!
- boonez123 7y agoGreat for thrill seekers though, double the value.
- takk309 7y agoDon't tell the airlines, they will start charging more for those seats!
- averros 7y agoAll airplanes turn by banking. To turn you need to generate force perpendicular to the direction of flight; this is achieved by tilting wings, so the lift force will have horizontal component. The angle of bank and the airspeed determine the radius of turn and the rate of turn. The proper way to turn the airplane is to make coordinated turn, in which the rate of turn (controlled by aileron deflection) matches rate of rotation in yaw axis (controlled by rudder) so that the perceived acceleration is perpendicular to the cabin floor, so that the turn feels like slight increase in gravity without any side-wise component. The radius of turn in normal maneuvers is large enough so that there's no perceptible difference in acceleration between center of gravity and the extremes of the airframe.