HowardCohodas
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Why do you have to accelerate when turning a plane? Just a question out of interest. Does something bad happen if you turn without doing it (I have zero flying knowledge)?
In a turn the lift vector is no longer in line with gravity (vertical). You have to add lift to compensate for the bleed associated with the horizontal component of lift. That is done by accelerating.
This effect is most pronounced during steep turns where the vertical component is significantly diminished. If you don't increase speed you soon find your windshield full of spinning earth. Not a good thing. Luckily, when it happened to me I recalled that the airplane knew how to fly better than me. I took my hands off everything and the airplane returned to stable (relatively) level flight. I used to practice steep turns a lot to get used to the unusual sensory input and be proactive rather than reactive in my flying. It's like riding the same roller coaster a bunch of times so that after you know what is coming, you are free to observe a lot more stuff.
An interesting note. I read somewhere that Lindbergh had his controls set so that hands off would be unstable so that he would be forced to stay away to survive.