Jim Macklin wrote:

Pilots tend to sit on the left side and not look truly
straight ahead, but look a few degrees toward the center of
the airplane.

A few hours with a taildragger will do wonders to fix this.

The cure is to first get an accurate reference point
directly in front of the pilot, parallel and off-set from
the centerline;

This is exactly correct. In my Maule, this point was the upper left mounting
screw for the AI.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.