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Old 9th Sep 2001, 06:45
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heloplt
 
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Lessee now...I have climbed in 500's over the collective, twiddled the knobs with both hands, fiddled with the cyclic with both hands, turned in the direction I wasn't looking, wenched in a thousand bars...errr..winched from both seats in the front, hovered over underslung loads while facing the rear in a stepped down cockpit (CH-54 Tarhe...Flying Crane to our tea drinking ex-owners), sat in the center seat on both right and wrong way turning machines,scooted over ridges with my eyes wide shut, and to the absolute best of my memory and study of many...many aircraft maintenance manuals have never seen any mention of a "Captain's Seat"! I have seen descriptions such as Pilots Seat, Right hand pilots seat...left hand pilots seat...hell...the Chinook even has a Troop Commanders Seat....but no Captain's seat. Doesn't it all boil down to sitting in the seat that has the sticks with the most buttons on it?
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