Right Seat Learning

buttman wrote in
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On Feb 25, 10:07*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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A question to all the CFIs on the board who actually remember ---

How many hours in the right seat before you felt as competent in
the right as in the left? (In a side by side, not a tandem, Bertie)

Took me about an hour, I think.

I flew right seat for the first time in a couple of weeks and I
felt as co-ordinated on landings as a drunken penguin.

The rest (Steep turns, ground reference, etc) was smooth and
exceeded PTS Comm standards.

After about 8 stop and goes things smoothed out....

Yeah, doesn't take long for rust to set in! If I haven't flown for a
coupl
e
of weeks I find myself loking at stuff in the cockpit and trying to
remember what it does.

Bertie

how is that any different than normal?


I remember eventually, you don't.

Feel like taking another trip, spankard?



Bertie

wrote:
A question to all the CFIs on the board who actually remember ---

How many hours in the right seat before you felt as competent in the
right as in the left? (In a side by side, not a tandem, Bertie)

I flew right seat for the first time in a couple of weeks and I felt
as co-ordinated on landings as a drunken penguin.

The rest (Steep turns, ground reference, etc) was smooth and exceeded
PTS Comm standards.

After about 8 stop and goes things smoothed out....

Dan

As I recall it took me about 10 hours to feel comfortable and competent
in the right hand seat. I am extremely right handed (I look like a freak
trying to throw a baseball with my left arm) so that may have been part
of it.

On Feb 25, 6:50*am, " wrote:
A question to all the CFIs on the board who actually remember ---

How many hours in the right seat before you felt as competent in the
right as in the left? (In a side by side, not a tandem, Bertie)

I flew right seat for the first time in a couple of weeks and I felt
as co-ordinated on landings as a drunken penguin.

The rest (Steep turns, ground reference, etc) was smooth and exceeded
PTS Comm standards.

After about 8 stop and goes things smoothed out....

I would say that it probably took me a good 8 hours to actually feel
comfortable flying from the right seat. You can learn that the vis
picture is different but there is something that just felt very odd at
first.

-Robert, CFII

wrote:
A question to all the CFIs on the board who actually remember ---

How many hours in the right seat before you felt as competent in the
right as in the left? (In a side by side, not a tandem, Bertie)

I don't recall when I started feeling comfortable in the right seat, but
I felt capable after just a couple of hours. Others have suggested 8 or
10 hours and that sounds about right. My biggest problems were
(initially) trying to remember how to work the throttle and crosswind
landings. Part of that may have been because I've got almost 10 time
more time in Pipers than Cessnas and my CFI training started in a 172
(but I ended up doing most if it in an Arrow, which made things easier
for me).

Oddly enough, now I have more trouble flying the Cessnas from the left
seat than the right...


-m
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