"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Why does it seem that the control yokes of small aircraft are always
turned completely to one side or the other in photographs? Is there
some sort of convention about doing this? A safety reason? Why is it
so common?

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If it is during taxi operations... It is so that the wind doesn't get under
the wing and flip the plane over... Basically "Quartering headwind, turn
into it, quartering tailwind, turn away from it and elevator forward."