"Stan Gosnell" wrote in message =
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Judah wrote in news:Xns951DD2EF8772AjudahNOSPAMMSG@
167.206.3.2:
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Do people in Europe fly from the right seat?
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They do if they fly helicopters, just as we do in the US. Flying from =
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left seat has never made any sense at all to me. Most people are =
right-
handed, and flying from the left seat requires using your left hand, =
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using the right to tune radios, etc. We fly helicopters from the =
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allowing the use of the right hand on the cyclic stick to keep =
upright, while=20
tuning, eating donuts, etc with the left. =20
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In reality, flying from the right puts the collective in the center, =
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don't have to climb over it to get in and out; plus, the very early =
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had only one collective, and the left-seat pilot had to use the left =
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the cyclic, and the right on the collective, and this isn't easy to =
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to. Most of these type things go back to historical trivia; it was =
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one model for whatever reason, and just became tradition.
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Regards,
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Stan

I thought some European helicopters turned their rotors oppositely,
and for a related reason flew from the left. Did I think wrong?
---JRC---