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What are the G forces experienced by people in passenger planes during takeoff?

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  1. You will not experience anymore than 1.5 G's at the most during takeoff, and throughout any portion on flight on a passenger airline. The bank angle on passenger airlines are limited to half standard rate, at 1.5 degrees a second, or about 15-20 degrees at the most..

    The aircraft would have to exceed 60 degrees of bank to have 2G's or more, and during takoffs, it 1.5 or less at the absoulte most.


  2. In addition to gravity, G forces come primarily from 3 different sources on take off in an airliner.  First is the acceleration of the airplane on the runway to reach take off speed, centripetal acceleration from turns in the air and turbulence.  

    If you assume that the airplane accelerates uniformly on take off from 0 – 140 knots or 161 mph in 30 seconds, the acceleration is about .24 G’s – horizontally (plus the 1 G of gravity).

    Now for the turns …the maximum bank angle in an airliner is usually about 30 degrees.  That translates to about 1.15 G’s.  It is 1/Cos(bank angle).  Even if you banked 45 degrees, that is still only 1.4 G’s.

    The wildcard is turbulence.  It can easily exceed the above two sources, but it is very short-lived.  You can get a 1.5 G spike, but it is a very short duration.  The good thing is that airlines won’t take off if they anticipate significant turbulence and in flight, they will do their best to fly around the most turbulent air.

  3. the maximum allowed in a transport aircraft is 2.5 and that is in level flight at 66 degrees bank

    dont know about takeoff though

  4. like 1.2-2.

  5. An object at rest has 1g exerted on it. That's the force of gravity. An airliner taking off adds just a bit to that, so you'd be experienceing between 1 and 2 g's, depending on how hard the takeoff is. Shouldn't be more than 1.5g. More than 2 g's can be a little disturbing for someone who isn't used to it and you won't typically feel that on an airliner unless something is wrong. Airliners are kept to pretty tame force levels for passenger comfort.

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