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While turning by reference to instruments, the rate of turn shown on a standard rate turn indicator ("2-minute turn") is

Choices

90° per minute.
90° per minute is 1.5° per second — half the standard rate.
360° per minute.
That would be 6°/sec — half-standard rate turn, not standard.
✓ 3° per second (180° per minute).correct
completing a 360° turn in 2 minutes. A standard rate turn is 3°/sec. Over 2 minutes that is 360° — hence the term "2-minute turn." The bank angle to achieve a standard rate scales with airspeed (rule of thumb: bank ≈ TAS/10 + 7).
6° per second.
6°/sec is twice the standard rate.

Why

A standard rate turn is 3° per second: 180° per minute, completing a full 360° turn in 2 minutes — hence the '2-minute turn' marking. The bank angle needed to hold standard rate increases with true airspeed (rule of thumb: TAS ÷ 10 + 7).

FAA source: PHAK Ch 8, AIM 5-3-5; PHAK Chapter 8 — Flight Instrumentsbrowse the reference library →

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