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I understand that at the bottom of the dive, if his centripetal acceleration were 5g, then he would feel 6g of weight, but my professor kept saying he means acceleration and not the force the pilot feels, and we set it equal to 7g, not 6g or 5g. So I'm not sure what's correct...

Thank you for the help! I understand that pilots would pass out from the forces they feel, and I agree with how it is 5g of upwards acceleration, since the pilot would now feel 6g. But I asked my professor afterwards, and he insisted he meant acceleration, not what the pilot actually feels, and...

When I went to solve it, I set the maximum upwards acceleration equal to the formula for centripetal acceleration (I'm going to call it CA), so we get v^2/r=6g, and then v^2/300=60. Solving for v, we get v=sqrt(18000), or v≈134.16ms. However, my professor said this is wrong, since we must set...