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Old 12-08-2008, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by KarTek View Post
I'd say yes, normal straight and level would be easily +/- 5 deg. Especially if the pilot was shooting for an absolute level attitude. Beyond that, anything up to nearly 70 deg. or more on both axis is possible during turns, etc... depending on how wild the pilot gets. And this is in a regular everyday machine.
Flying long, straight transects perpendicular to the swath of catastrophic damage from a major hurricane, say 100 miles. The pilot is asked to follow a certain azimuth and altitude as closely as safely possible.

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