{"id":61687,"date":"2017-01-18T22:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/?p=61687"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:27:52","slug":"glossarystandard-rate-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/glossary\/standard-rate-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Rate Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard rate turn refers to the act of maneuvering an aircraft at a standard rate of three degrees per second. There are 360 degrees in a circle, so it would take an air charter pilot exactly two minutes to complete a full turn at the standard rate using a constant-bank level turn.<\/p>\n<p>By standardizing the rate of turn, it helps pilots and air traffic controllers know what the other is doing. Standard rate turns are used in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holding patterns<\/li>\n<li>Tracking<\/li>\n<li>Approaches<\/li>\n<li>Departures<\/li>\n<li>Vectoring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Effect of Airspeed on Standard Rate Turns<\/h2>\n<p>The airspeed of an air charter affects it ability to complete a standard rate turn. It might seem counterintuitive, but the faster a plane travels, the higher bank angle it requires to complete the turn. By travelling faster, the aircraft is increasing the turn radius, and decreasing the rate of turn.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, increasing the bank angle beyond a certain point isn\u2019t advisable. Therefore, the ICAO typically limits the maximum bank angle of faster aircraft to 25 degrees when they are in a holding pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, in cases where aircraft are flying in excess of 250 knots, the air charter pilot can follow a rate half turn of 1.5 degrees per second. Using this method, it would take twice as long, or four minutes, to complete a full turn.<\/p>\n<p>In order to accurately navigate a standard rate turn, aircraft are equipped with either a turn coordinator or a turn and bank indicator (also known as a turn and slip indicator).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard rate turn refers to the act of maneuvering an aircraft at a standard rate of three degrees per second.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[978],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94084,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61687\/revisions\/94084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}