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Brendan StewartBrendan Stewart
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    Hmmm. I seem to recall a relatively steep bank angle during rope break practice. I’ll go with “D”

    It seems worth considering that rate and radius of turn factor into the equation. In a shallow turn, your sink *rate* is lower, but distance travelled is longer as is time to complete the turn. In a steep turn, the opposite is true: Sink rate is up, distance travelled is smaller and duration of turn is shorter.

    There’s a peak to this bell curve somewhere… 🙂