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The g-meter records the highest and lowest g experienced by it. The button resets those needles.

 

This is all IIRC.

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I've never seen an accelerometer whose button did anything BUT reset the needles. We've got a Citabria at my flying club and the purpose of the button is to reset the needles so that the guy who booked the plane after you doesn't know you exceeded the 5.5-g structural limit when performing your split-S. (Oops.)

 

I imagine that similarly the purpose of the reset button in military aircraft was to save you the embarrassment of having your crew chief know that you over-g'd the airplane on your last sortie, but nowadays with flight data recorders on all these aircraft there are no secrets.

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Heard a pilot say he'd blow past the G-restrictions, then hit the button, then perform a nice 4 g turn before landing. Starfighter, so before tattle-telling computer chips lol.

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