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Old 8th Dec 2022, 10:54
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ShyTorque

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Originally Posted by Vessbot
Left and right are relative to which way your body is facing inside the craft, but port and starboard are not. Which is the point of using them... they're absolute. Port is always the side that the doors are, the captain sits, and the wing with the red light bulb is. Starboard is always the other.
Not all of that is correct if you fly a helicopter!
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