bumps in the sky

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I was watching a program on Discovery Wings, where a girl is learing to fly, and she was doing steep turns, and flew through her own wake, and felt the bump. I can remember doing that when I was learning to fly, but in all the time I was doing steep turns, when I was learning the skymaster, and learning to fly instruments, I never felt that.

Sunday, went up and did steep turns, holding altitude real well ( +20 -0, very happy abt that) and never felt the bump from crossing my own wake. My GPS showed very nice circles, left and right, but no bump.

I know I put out a bunch of turbulence. One day Jerry DeSantis flew through my wake on take off, and it was no fun to be him at that moment.

So, is the lack of bump because we are moving so much faster than a 172, and therefore make a larger circle? Anyone have a suggestion or thought on this? A standard rate turn, in a 172, or a 337, takes the same amount of time.