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Old 18th Dec 2010, 21:37
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ChristiaanJ
 
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I haven't flown enough helicopters to have a definite answer.

With most helicopters only having a centrally located collective, I found it easier to handle the 'more critical and twitchy' cyclic with my right hand, and the 'push-pull and twist' collective with my left hand, hence flying from the right-hand seat to me made sense.

On the other hand, my instructor in the LHS had no problems in that position, so I suppose it's not really a great deal.
Cough's, Admiral346's and P.Pilcher's answers in particular seem to confirm that.

CJ


BTW Think of manual-shift cars in town traffic - you do almost as much shifting as you do steering, with one hand almost permanently on the gearstick. I've driven both in the UK and in France for years, and I don't really have any recollection of one being any more difficult than the other.
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