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With the current discussion on steering, I though that I'd mention an
amusing story that happened to me once on a yacht-skipper course which I was
teaching:
The boat had been worked on and the wires to the steering quadrant had been
reversed, we only realised this when a student was backing out of the marina
and the vessel kept steering in the opposite direction. Anyway, we decided
to carry on for an evening sail and had quite a bit of fun trying to reverse
our thinking every time we had to tack or manouvre. It seems a lot more
natural for the boat to steer  'left hand down a bit' to turn to port etc.
What about any aircraft pilots out there on the list - I'm sure you'd prefer
your control yoke to ''mean what it says when banking ??"

Regards
Russell

   

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