How Bank Angle Affects Stall Speed | Don't Get too Slow! | Load Factor

We know the airplane can stall at any airspeed, but why is this? When we're in a banked turn, in order to maintain altitude we have to increase lift, which adds to our load factor and moves the stall speed up. It's possible to have an accelerated stall at higher bank angles, where the aircraft experiences a stall well above where the beginning of the white or green arc may be.
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[@fortheloveofcake93]

Informative presentation. Terrifying ending.

[@Nudo1985]

That last demo from the sim was bone chilling. Really good stuff, Thanks!

[@gavanwhatever8196]

Watching this it occured to me that both the steam and digital ASI could be updated to have a dynamic green arc the bottom of which is always stall speed regardless of whatever that speed might be for the configuration of the plane.

[@cmurphy3748]

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Super helpful! I appreciate the content. Keep them coming!

[@flyguy1637]

Excellent explanation!

[@jakew9887]

Great presentation. Thanks

[@theselimt]

This is INCREDIBLE education great job man

[@billmoran3812]

Great illustration!

[@gonetoearth2588]

Excellent content and wonderful graphics!

[@maryambukharistudy7254]

Thank you so much sir ☺️

[@gcombrinck]

Very helpful. 👍🏻

[@ChristopherYounger]

Excellent content, as always. On my (recent) checkride, I was asked to do an accelerated power-off stall by entering a 20 degree left bank after I established my stabilized descent. We talked about this during the brief before the flight and covered pretty much the same material you covered here. If you'd been two weeks earlier on this, I would've sounded like an expert! :) I hadn't practiced this with my CFI prior to the checkride, so this was new territory for me. The part that was nerve-wracking was thinking I'd enter a stall-spin since I was banked. Obviously, that didn't happen as I had enough rudder input and went slightly nose down as soon as my wings departed flight. Definately something I'll be practicing to stay sharp!

[@bobcfi1306]

In actual mountain flying the canyon turn is an emergency maneuver. We pull max Gs for minimum turn diameter. More Gs than level turn. Typically pull until the stall horn comes on and hold it.

[@aaronhammond7297]

Great videos, though I think it's worth trying to unteach the reliance on stall speed, and focus on stall stick position instead.

[@youcrany]

That’s a sim? Wow we are a lot closer to the matrix than I thought. I sincerely thought this entire video was real life go pro or something !!

[@aminuk23]

you can compensate bank angle stall by yaw input and thrust.

[@itsmesanto]

Looking at the footage of yesterday's Yeti airline crash in Nepal, it seems like the plane crashed similar to the last scenario shown here.

[@carveroutdoors]

You just wanted to spin the aircraft. Great explanation as always!

[@flightinsight9111]

Couldn’t help it! Been too long since doing it for real. Thanks for watching!

[@marcdeneus977]

What simulator is he using in this video?

[@Springkid27]

Greetings! I have a quick question, I was looking over one of the aviation questions that asks, “ If the airspeed is increased from 110 knots to 150 knots during a level 45° banked turn, the load factor will...” At first I chose the load factor will increase as well as the stall speed. But the correct answer appears to be the load remain the same but the radius turn will increase. But at the above quiz question, I thought when you make a turn your load factor and stall speed will automatically increase? Or is it because the throttle is increased that’s why there’s no change in load factor and stall speed? Or that’s just say I don’t increase the throttle, and I make a turn, then in this case both the load factor and stall will increase? Thank you!

[@johnthompson5741]

Just a bit late to the question but the way I understand it is that load factor is a relationship between lift produced and aircraft weight. The key to that question is that you’re in a level turn, not climbing. Therefore the amount of lift produced will remain the same regardless of how fast you’re going. So that ratio of lift to weight remains the same and you would need a tighter bank to keep the same rate of turn but since you’re still at 45° the only thing that happens is you need more space to complete the turn

[@sigbauer9782]

Your video inspired me to take a nap!

[@mikeslater5338]

Don't exceed standard rate turn in pattern Accelerated stalls lead to spins. Need to demonstrate spin recovery for student. Nice video

[@Drapsie]

Do you know why in a medium turn, the airplane stays there and doesn’t go back to level wings? My friend was asked for a CFI checkride. I know he mentioned neutral D.S. but wanted a more scientific definition