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Good info Scott,
Another .02 for consideration.
Then, all things being equal, an upwind (East) turn would have shaved off 600' from his turn width and they would have made it.. For this reason, I was always taught that if caught in a box canyon the upwind direction was the preferred direction to turn in order to minimize the width of the turn. I suspect that they never thought of themselves as being in a box canyon because there were no rocks! But their mental attitude of avoiding calling LGA and not violating the corridor did in fact put them in that situation.
Personally at some point in the turn, I'd have said the hell with the corridor, widened the turn, missed the building and filed a NASA report.
On 11/14/06,
Sky2high@aol.com <Sky2high@aol.com> wrote:
it seems that the PIC just
didn't want to contact La Guardia tower for transit through their airspace as
the VFR defined corridor was coming to an end. The claim is that the 180
degree turn had to be done in less than about 1700 feet of horizontal space with
an approximate loss of about 300 feet because of crosswind drift and at a
constant bank of over 50 degrees at the estimated speed of 97 Kts, reducing the
width to about 1400 feet. Well and good as this seems to be the box canyon
problem. Do you know the turn radius of your aircraft at several speeds
and bank angles?
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John McMahon
Lancair Super ES, N9637M
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