wrote:
A question to all the CFIs on the board who actually remember ---

How many hours in the right seat before you felt as competent in the
right as in the left? (In a side by side, not a tandem, Bertie)

I flew right seat for the first time in a couple of weeks and I felt
as co-ordinated on landings as a drunken penguin.

The rest (Steep turns, ground reference, etc) was smooth and exceeded
PTS Comm standards.

After about 8 stop and goes things smoothed out....

Dan

Flying from the right seat simply involves getting used to some new
peripheral cues as far as accurate reading of instruments and parallax
is concerned. It also involves a switch of hands for control use ( as a
CFI you better get used to having that left hand in the throttle READY
position :-)) and some adjustment in nose attitude vs horizon reference
in turns.
Switching seats should pose little problems that a good checkout with an
instructor completely familiar with the above issues can't straighten
out for you pretty quickly.
A little practice time and it will all fit into place.



--
Dudley Henriques