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Old Apr 9, 2008, 5:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Bobster
The g-force due to banking is only about 1.2 g at 30 degrees. That's hardly enough to notice. It does go up quite a bit at steeper angles, but then that would not be normal.

Interesting that the banking g-force is always perpendicular to the floor. So your drink shouldn't spill during banking.
Isn't that centrifugal acceleration (my knowledge of physics is confined to what I learned in high school ). It is nice that the laws of physics facilitate in-flight self-medication.
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