Cyclic

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Regards

JF

I'm left handed. Can get by without too much problem using right and in a lot of cases equally as well.

No problem flying fixed wing from either side. Learnt rotary on a Schwiezer 300, sit on left with anti-clockwise rotors then went on to Skeeter, sit on right with clockwise rotors. No probs.

Can pirouet r/c model heli to right better than left but righties have same problem....explain that one.

Better question is can ANYONE explain helicopters???

:p

MkVIII,

Yes, they can be explained, but it's getting a bit off topic.

Helicopters are so ugly that the earth repels them. They don't use the conventional laws of aerodynamics.

Happy Easter,

Old Smokey

This all explains a great deal to me .. although I'm not quite sure just what .... and, like many, I do this with the left and that with the right and, at times, haven't a clue as to just what I am doing ...

OS .. I trust that you are a bridge devotee ? .. likewise I deal from the left.

.. and I must admit to a perversion .. having first left the surface in a helo as a youngster ... but never having qualified in rotary .. I still think that helos are wonderful things ... a bit like Tiggers.

JT

Interesting stuff.

I am right handed for everything except when playing cards; when dealing I hold the pack in my right hand and use the left to share the cards out. Having been dealt a hand I sort them into order in my left hand using the right hand to sort them and then transfer them to my right hand to hold, actually playing the cards with my left.

I learnt to fly on the Chipmunk which as far as I can remember had the throttle on the left, then various Pipers from the left hand seat. Then left and right seats of 707s and 737s. Never had any problem adjusting.

My golfing pal is left handed for everything including tennis. But he plays cricket and golf righthanded.

My writing is very untidy and "spidery" in spite of my best efforts. I have heard that this is quite common in people who write righthanded but have some left handed traits. This applies to my son as well.

I´m a leftie...

never found any problems within the actual handling bit, but quite a few of my colleagues are amazed at the fact.

"Are u left handed" (with a seriously amazed voice)
Surely they must have met one or two lefthanded persons before.

Another good one

"How does it feel to be lefthanded"
Dunno, sort of used to it ya know.


I write with both hands, but only tend to use my left hand anyway, run the computer mouse with my right to avoid changing every its position every flippin time.

What irritates me is my inability to use right hand siccors, I just can cut a straight line with ´em.

This thread has taken some interesting, oft light-hearted twists and turns. Now we have 3 "Righties" who deal cards with their Left hands. Hmmm....maybe there's some university somewhere who can give a research grant into this phenomenom. Are there any "Lefties" out there who deal cards with their Right hand ? If so, we can put up a good case for that grant. John_T, No, I don't play bridge, actually I prefer to deal cards under the table (with my Left hand of course), but this is not generally recommended if one wishes to lead a long life.

Thus far we've covered "Laterality" pretty well, how about "Verticality"? Here's a (totally truthful) one out of Left field, my aunt could ONLY write Upside Down, that is, from the bottom of the page to the top with inverted writing (with her right hand). Her writing was perfectly legible.

Hobo, your untidy and "spidery" writing sounds much like that which occurs when a natural Left hander has it thumped out of him / her at school and forced to use their Right hand. Several teachers have made this remark to me.

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Old Smokey No, I naturally wanted to write with my right hand as far as I can remember. My son who has the same trait certainly wasn't forced to write with his right hand. Trying to do anything lefthanded (apart from cards) just seems unnatural to me.

On a slightly different tack a tailor once told me that right handed people tend to "dress" to the left and vice versa. Any research on that?!

... I should be so lucky as to be so well endowed to have to worry about such detail ... maybe that is the underlying reason I have two bob each way on the left and right handed thing ?

JT, that's just TOO MUCH info on a purely need to know basis, and I didn't need to know!!!!!!!!!! :p

Ambidextrosity (???) is a wonderful, uselful thing!

Hi John,
tried to Pm you but unfortunately your inbox is a bit chokker.
Will try again soon.
Regards
Micky
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Cyclic

Sorry - I boobed - I thought I had emptied it but did not have the inbox start date set back far enough. Should be OK now.

John