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Old 31st Aug 2016, 07:13
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treadigraph
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I'm left handed - have never had any problem driving cars with right hand or left hand drive.

My limited flying experience is nearly all right seat in C152/172 with a yoke, no problem flying right handed and had a trial lesson in a C152, left seat, left hand, no problem again.

Flying gliders with a stick however, my natural hand was the left - clonk round back of the head with a clip board from the instructor - "right hand m'boy, need your left hand for the cable release and spoilers - don't want to be changing hands during launch or landing do we...!"

I found flying right handed with a stick very hard but I suppose that had I persevered I would have trained it eventually.
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