I may have asked this before or even someone told me recently or years ago but I lost a lot of data in a recent HD-crash and take long breaks. I'm also not posting here to preclude Badboy from contributing it just seemed relevant to start a new thread.
It may be that I've been carrying an unfortunate misassumption around with my ACM for some considerable time, causing inner confusion, a widening conflict between convention and innovation and general disturbance in the force. What I like to do in such cases is make my own tools and do my own testing.
Can someone tell me, including if the following is correct:
Sustained turn rate is essentially the balance point between lift drag and thrust (at a given mass) measured in degrees per second when in a sustained flat turn. That could simply be converted into d.p.s. on a stopwatch and simple division, correct?
G is the resultant outward force as measured by an instrument which presumable has a given mass which distorts under downwards load (relative to the airframe) and indicating that in orders of ordinary standing on the ground manner (1G) or in AH a simulated version of?
Using those together I can presumably derive the radius or diameter of such a flat turn in feet? Is there a formula? I think I read that mass doesn't effect the onset of stall but it feels like a lower mass will mean a 'better' turn because less mechanical work, correct?
A 'better' turn would be defined as what combination of tighter and more d.p.s?
Sorry for ubernoobness. It's a long, sad tale of dyslexia, dyscalculia and a long conflict between convention and self-discovery.
