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Old 11th Apr 2020, 02:21
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megan
 
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The right side of the brain controls the left limbs of the body, and vice versa. Swapping seats means swapping the sides of the brain in control of the thrust levers and the yoke. Also, the view of the landing from the other seat will have the various visual cues during the flare flipped left to right.

Any motor control within in the brain requires practice and repetition to develop and produce the fine hand-eye coordination required with flight control. Just try writing with your other hand to show that.

Allowing an untrained and unpractised person to swap seats in flight and then attempt the fine control needed to land is such utter stupidity
In our operation on an extremely rare occasions we had two captains fly together, night flights always, whenever in the co-pilot roll I refused to assume the PF role, was so uncomfortable in that seat, had always flown the aircraft single pilot previously before two crew were dictated. Following is an extreme example of Uplinker's thrust.

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