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Old 11-22-2010 | 04:46 PM
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Default RE: Downwind turn Myth

For you doubters with full scale experience, try this experiment:

Get an instructor and a Cessna 150 and go flying on a steady 20kt. windy day. (Approximate substitutions allowed.)

Climb up to a safe altitude and put on a hood.

Crank it over into a 60 degree bank at 70 kt. and hold everything nice and stable.

As long as you keep the hood on, you will neither feel nor sense anything other than a steady 2g force on your butt.