Right seat problems

The buyer of my Ercoupe called me the other day asking if I would like to
fly with him after the plane got finished with the pre-buy inspection. I
agreed but told him that I'm not a CFI and it would be better to get a CFI
checkout if needed for his insurance. He also asked if I'd help relocate the
plane, no problem! I took it as another chance to fly the Ercoupe again.
He's going to get a CFI checkout for insurance in the next couple days.

Yesterday he flew a club Warrior here to Fairmont (FRM) to pick me up and
take me up to Waseca (ACQ) where the plane has been for a week for a pre-buy
inspection. I then flew the Ercoupe from there to Mankato (MKT) with a bit
of site-seeing along the way, he wanted to have both of us fly the planes
over his parents house near St Peter, no problem. It was a bit windy at
Mankato when we landed; 290 at 17G23, landed on 33. He parked his Warrior
and asked if the Ercoupe needed any fuel. It only had 1.5 hours flown since
the last fill so I passed on waiting to fuel up. I slid over to the right
seat and he climbed into the left. I showed him some of the features in the
Ercoupe and we were ready to go.

He took of fine and we went around the pattern. He flew a wider pattern than
I was use to, but no problems. After he turned base, he said "your plane,
lets see how you land it" to me. I tried to get the power and pitch correct
on final but my right and left hands wanted to do it differently! I was
trying to push/pull on the throttle and yoke with the wrong hands. After I
realized I wasn't doing too good at getting it stabilized to land, I asked
him to take over. He landed it fine.

We parked the Ercoupe and climbed back into the Warrior to give me a ride
back to Fairmont. On the way back, he wrote out a check and I filled out the
bill of sale for the Ercoupe.

This was the first time I had tried to fly from the right seat. Now I know
that if I ever want to try flying right seat again, get someone in the left
seat to help me if needed. I didn't think I would have had that much problem
flying from the right, but I was wrong...

-Greg B.

P.S. Jay, can your sim be set up for right seat flying? Need the Ercoupe
software and you can do away with those rudder pedal thingies...
;-)