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Old 24th November 2003 | 17:48
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Genghis the Engineer
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Actually in most modern rudder mechanisms the cables do cross in the back of the aircraft. Some aircraft can be mis-rigged, it's one of the reasons for the "controls full and free - and in the correct sense" check.

There's a (now obscure) American ultralight called a JC24b Weedhopper, which has a stick that operates in the "push-right / roll right" sense, and the pedals (actually nosewheel steering, there's no independent rudder) which is "push-right / turn-left". On the ground it's the most confusing flying machine I've ever flown and totally unnatural, and I speak as somebody comfortable with flexwings.

So, in my opinion everything working in the same sense push-left = roll-left = yaw-left, or push-right = roll-left = yaw-left is natural. Just don't cross them.

But you can get used to anything with time !

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