Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #13910
From: F. Barry Knotts <bknotts@earthlink.net>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [LML] Re: Left Throttle, Right Stick
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:34:29 -0400
To: <lml>

As others have said, "I'm going to hate myself for opening my big
mouth."  But here goes.

I've been watching the LML for awhile on this topic.  There have been a
number of persuasive arguments put forward on both sides of this issue.
I'm impressed.  But today I just got back from a 3 day trip in which I
flew about 5 or 6 hours.  Mostly IFR and some hand flying.  I'm right
handed and fly a plane with a standard yoke, but I fly left handed.
That's the horn on the yoke that has the trim and PPT buttons.  I almost
never put my right hand on the yoke.  Certainly in landing, take-off and
maneurvering my left hand is alone on the yoke.  My right hand is on the
throttles.  The most natural transition for me (a righty, remember) is
for the stick to be on my left side.  Isn't this how most pilots fly
from the left seat?


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