Regarding PORT & STARBOARD a statement to remember is:

"there's plenty of PORT LEFT to drink"

This I believe comes from a navy man and is the way I remember it.


Regarding the Nav lights I was taught that a good way to remember is the traffic light phase ie,

RIGHT it's GREEN lets go:

So you associate the right/starboard side with green.


hope this helps:)

If you're on the right, you're in the right.

Also,

the caption always drinks port...

All my life I had problems with Left and Right - my mum had to write 'L' and 'R' on my hands for my cycling proficiency test - and it was a pain when learning to fly, 'cos the intructor would say one thing and I'd do the other.

I got annoyed about it, realised I really *had* to get to grips with it, and I did. Perhaps it was because my brain was set up in 'learn' mode, but for the last 2 years I've not had any problem with it. Nowadays, left and right instructions just roll off the tongue like a normal person.

Steve R

Turning error's tip
 

QDM*3

The way i remember turning errors is when turning for north, stop Near to the heading. When turning through south, Surpass the heading.

The way i remember accelleration errors? Can never remember them!! I need a pen and a bit of paper for that!!

I have the same trouble with port and starboard, but the opposite theory was put to me by an ex Navy man, ( and if you think about their capacity for the odd beverage it's logical:D ),

Port is red,

"There is no Port left"

Therefore port is left, starboard must be right.

I think.............:confused:

I use PORT WINE IS RED to keep the colours sorted...

I must admit to having problems with 010 and 100 as
bearings but we all have our crosses to bear,

-- Andrew

phew!!!!!
 

Glad it's not just me then!! (I think!) ;)

I must add that I when the turn direction is my choice, the problem is more "mis-indentification", so even if I annouce "right turn" when intending to turn left, I do actually turn left!!

I guess there's a safety issue here, especially when the ATC is alternating aircraft on left and right traffic patterns!! Still, if we're all getting it wrong, spacing would still be ok! :D

Left or right
 

Some bright spark I know wears a red sock on his left foot and a green one on his right, but I don't know how he remembers which sock to put on which foot. Also never eat shredded wheat for the North South East West. :D

My father taught me that the phrase/question "Is there any Red Port Left?" helps to associate the 3 relevant words.

(The original phrase was actually "There is no red port left", but the negative in there used to confuse me :) )

For red and green: I remember that LEFT wing politics is RED.

For North/South compass errors: SOS = South OverShoot, so North Undershoot.

Carlito

And port is red :)
You only have to remember one, the other is what's left :D
I used to do similar though, remember port is red, and port has 4 letters, as does left. I don't have to think about it any more, unless I've not flown for a while.

On the left/right confusion subject, it seems fairly common for left handers who were forced to write with their right hand to have problems with this.

I've never had any problems, although I do have to turn the map to keep my route going up the page... :o

You know, following my earlier post on this thread, thank Christ I never actually made my first avowed intent - to be an Air Traffic Controller...

Golf Charlie Delta, turn Left heading... errr, right heading... errr... ooooops!

Never Eat Shreddied Wheat (N, E, S, W read clockwise)

The RED port is Left on the table

UNOS (when turning on compass only, stop 30 degress Under (before) North or 30 degrees Over (past) South)

Dyslexia Rules! K.O !

:D

sexybeets


If you've read the naked Pilot, you know its called laterality and there is little that you can do other than double check yourself.

A real human factor this one and impacts may people everyday in all fields of life.

:)

And there was I thinking I was the only one in the world with left/right confusion. I just put it down to mild dyslexia. Mrs WHC thinks I do it on purpose to annoy her. I'm not - it does.

Thanks guys I feel a lot better now.