Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> (Marvin Kaye)
To: lml
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:14:01 -0400
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Reply-To: "Dan Schaefer" <dfs155@earthlink.net>
From: "Dan Schaefer" <dfs155@earthlink.net>
Subject: right-seat flying
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Regarding Jerry Fisher's question about setting up a Lancair for a throttle
for the left hand and stick for the right.

My hangar partner, John, has a Falco that he built some years ago. He is
also a retired Navy carrier pilot, so he has an almost instinctive need for
a throttle left/stick right setup. His airplane has the standard quadrant in
the center console (Throttle, prop, mixture) but he also has designed and
installed an interconnected quadrant on the left wall next to the left seat.
It seems John has the best of both worlds - doesn't matter how one might
like to fly his airplane - left or right handed - (at least from the left
seat) with his set-up, you could have it both ways.

As I understand it, it wasn't all that difficult to design and fabricate.
I'd say it was very reliable too - John's Jalco has been flying for about 13
years.

As far as having a problem changing hands when diddling the radios, one
usually doesn't do a lot of throttle jockying for 90%+ of a flight, so radio
diddling doesn't seem to be much of a problem (John flys in the system most
of the time and doesn't seem to be bothered dialing a new frequency.

Bottom line, you too can fly right handed from the left seat without
diminishing the re-sale value of your Lancair.

Dan Schaefer