Originally Posted by
cloudmac
Ornge has decided that captains only will fly from the right seat of the 139s and copilots from the left seat, is anyone else in the world operating this way.
Rehijacking the thread to the original question.
Colombia (the country, not the tandem-rotor company) requires SIC in the left seat (except during upgrade training) and PIC in the right seat in something like the AW139.
Instructors / examiners, assuming they're up front at all, when engaged in those duties sit exclusively in the SIC seat, by regulation.
In the 139 this isn't a big problem, as everything (with the sole exception of the parking brake) is easily operable from the left seat (no matter how snappish some folk get when another pilot's hand crosses the aircraft centerline).