Right seat problems

In article ,
kontiki wrote:

It is a big transition when you experience it for the first time. I think
you need to actually 'train' your right hand to fly and the left to work
the radios/throttle/flaps etc. Your brain is wired to flying on the left.

I've flown from the right (with my wife on the left) several times but had
never taken off or landed from there. On a lark, at the end of getting
checked out with a CFI in the Skyhawk my wife usually flies I swapped seats
with him and did one takeoff/landing from the right. I didn't have any
problem with the throttle on the left since I've been flying a Champ but
the sight picture really messed me up. Even taxiing was strange and the
takeoff roll felt barely in control. I could safely land from the right
if my wife was incapacitated but I wouldn't do it on purpose until I've had
a few more hours with a CFI. I had a DE tell me it only takes 5 or 6 hours
for the strangeness to go away and after that you can swap back and forth
with little effort. One of these days I'll follow up with that training
since it'd be a nice way for my wife and I to share PIC duties without
trading seats.

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Scott Post