As an aside - I once flew a Belvedere and I climbed in up a very long ladder and strapped in. The very kind Crab whose steed it was, appeared up his ladder, sat down and said unstrap now and don't strap in until both AVPIN started Gazelles were started satisfactorily. The ladders also remained in place until a fire free start was achieved. Who ever decided to mount two Gazelles facing downwards with the AVPIN starters underneath them clearly had a perverse sense of humour.
The sensation of flying the beast was like being at the front of a flying railway carriage where the rear followed the front rather reluctantly.
Am I wrong in remembering that when I flew a Sycamore that it only had one collective lever, and if you sat in the left hand seat you flew it back to front as it were?