On Oct 8, 1:13 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote

The problem usually first manifests itself on the *ground*, when the
newbie is learning to steer with their feet. No matter how I tell
them to "push left, turn left", they will keep pushing RIGHT. I've
even tried tapping the appropriate leg, thinking that perhaps they
didn't know "right" from "left", and that didn't help. They just end
up out in the weeds.

The very first time I flew (airplane or sim) was in a real airplane, and at
first, I could not understand that the rudder did not work like handlebars
on a bicycle. After I was told to think of old time airplanes having a
cable hooked up on the "rudder bar" and the same side of the rudder, it made
sense.
I saw something similar in a sailing club, where we had a lot of brand
new people starting out. They were confused because when you push the
tiller the boat moves toward you, and we could sometimes help them by
explaining that the linkage was 'reversed'. The best thing to do,
however, was to put them in a boat, point at a distant tree, and tell
them to 'make the boat go that way'. In a minute they would have it
figured out, and in ten minutes, they would forget about the rudder
and just ' make it go that way'.

John Halpenny