Reply #20: Read the questions.

[RH]

What in the Commission Report alludes to any difficulty?

What is difficult about a 330 degree turn?

You're always complaining righteously that people dont answer questions. How about, just for once, answering one or two?

Long before the Commission comments appeared on web pages to the effect that the said turn was difficult. Some even proposed a calculation, but never once did I see a reference to the source of any data to justify the science.

I have not yet seen anything at all to prove the supposed difficulty. Maybe the plane was pulling a few G. So what? What is so difficult about that? It helps perhaps to have some stregth to hang on the the joystick, but I cant see that it has anything much to do with training. One may just as well suppose that a well trained pilot would avoid the performance of a sharp turn and there is no particular reason why an unusually sharp turn was required.

The notion is blatant sophistry.

I know something about the radius of an airliner's turning circle. I live beneath a flight path. Boeings taking off into an easterly wind are already pointed on their way westwards to the USA when they pass, just a few miles south east of the airport.