As a flight instructor that moves from left to right seat in a power
plane and then both front and back seats in a tandem glider, I make it
a practice to re-familiarize myself with the controls, EVERY time I
sit down in an aircraft. I don't have to think about which hand does
what so much as where are the controls located and where do I look for
information on the instrument panel. The flight school power fleet
has 35 different aircraft and the glider club 7. In our two SGS 2-33s
the panels are NOT the same and one of the Blaniks has some metric
instruments.

Life gets interesting as I start the day in a Piper Seminole (twin-
engine trainer) teaching a new multi-engine instructor and end the day
in the back seat of the 2-33 with no instruments at all!