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 don't recall when I started feeling comfortable in the right seat, but
I felt capable after just a couple of hours. Others have suggested 8 or
10 hours and that sounds about right. My biggest problems were
(initially) trying to remember how to work the throttle and crosswind
landings. Part of that may have been because I've got almost 10 time
more time in Pipers than Cessnas and my CFI training started in a 172
(but I ended up doing most if it in an Arrow, which made things easier
for me).

Oddly enough, now I have more trouble flying the Cessnas from the left
seat than the right...


-m
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## Mark T. Dame
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