Captain right handed flying the Airbus?.?.?
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Captain right handed flying the Airbus?.?.?
ALLOA,
I got another question for you
:
When a Captain on a Airbus is right handed, isn't it difficult for him to fly the aircraft manual? Isn't it like writing with your left hand wenn you are right handed?
THANXXXXXXXX a lot
I got another question for you
:When a Captain on a Airbus is right handed, isn't it difficult for him to fly the aircraft manual? Isn't it like writing with your left hand wenn you are right handed?
THANXXXXXXXX a lot
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Just as the 'captain' of a single engine Piper or Cessna training aircraft does. I should think the vast majority of airline pilots (possibly excluding military) would have done all their training right up to CPL/IR flying left handed in this way.
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Pengintai:
As an aside and just for the fun of it I tried to decode your nom de plume. Pengintai is not listed in Charles Huckers “ Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China ” , not in any of my English to Chinese dictionaries, not listed in Pinyin and not in my PC translator. Therefore I must assume it is not a real word or a phrase. The secret is yours alone.
However, had you called yourself Ping An then I would have understood. You more than likely know there is nothing, absolutely nothing more important to an aviator than Ping An.
KIFIS
As an aside and just for the fun of it I tried to decode your nom de plume. Pengintai is not listed in Charles Huckers “ Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China ” , not in any of my English to Chinese dictionaries, not listed in Pinyin and not in my PC translator. Therefore I must assume it is not a real word or a phrase. The secret is yours alone.
However, had you called yourself Ping An then I would have understood. You more than likely know there is nothing, absolutely nothing more important to an aviator than Ping An.
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THE NEUTRAL POSITION OF THE STICK IS SO WELL
DEFINED, ONE WOULD HARDLY INADVERTANTLY PUT IN ANY UNWANTED COMMAND LIKE THE CONVENTIONAL CONTROL COLUMN AND YOKE(EG.PULLING NOSE UP WITH A BIT LEFT WING DOWN).THUS,IT IS BEST FLOWN WITH TWO FINGERS.
THE METHOD TO REMEMBER IS INPUT, HOLD 1 SEC, LET GO.
KIFIS,
SEND ME A MAIL AND I'LL TELL YOU.
DEFINED, ONE WOULD HARDLY INADVERTANTLY PUT IN ANY UNWANTED COMMAND LIKE THE CONVENTIONAL CONTROL COLUMN AND YOKE(EG.PULLING NOSE UP WITH A BIT LEFT WING DOWN).THUS,IT IS BEST FLOWN WITH TWO FINGERS.
THE METHOD TO REMEMBER IS INPUT, HOLD 1 SEC, LET GO.
KIFIS,
SEND ME A MAIL AND I'LL TELL YOU.
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Before embarking on my PPL I wondered the same thing, being left-handed.
In my flight simmming days (now the real thing has no substitute!) I bought one of those groovy force feedback joysticks, but was a bit alarmed that the grip was for a right hander, not a left hander.
My old joystick you could use from either side.
But I found that swapping hands, as it were, made no difference and now I can use either hand to manipulate the controls.
When I fly for real now I find that sitting in the other seat poses more of a challenge in terms of the spatial 'positioning' of the aircraft, rather than any real difficulty swapping hands on the controls.
Question - would a veteran Captain find it a bit weird flying from the F/O's seat after many years on the other side of the flight deck?
In my flight simmming days (now the real thing has no substitute!) I bought one of those groovy force feedback joysticks, but was a bit alarmed that the grip was for a right hander, not a left hander.
My old joystick you could use from either side.
But I found that swapping hands, as it were, made no difference and now I can use either hand to manipulate the controls.
When I fly for real now I find that sitting in the other seat poses more of a challenge in terms of the spatial 'positioning' of the aircraft, rather than any real difficulty swapping hands on the controls.
Question - would a veteran Captain find it a bit weird flying from the F/O's seat after many years on the other side of the flight deck?
