lucaperazzolli
Well Known Member
Well, before doing the water cut I ask you the 'final' suggest.
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
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Luke,
In the 8, it is best to keep your radios (and anything else with knobs and buttons) on the left side of the panel. .
Luke,
In the 8, it is best to keep your radios (and anything else with knobs and buttons) on the left side of the panel. Your right hand will always be on the stick. The left hand is for the throttle and the radios.
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Well, that is certainly one opinion, held by many, Charlie - but not all, including a lot of human factors people and test pilots I know. The argument for having a lot of stuff on the right is that you can fly pretty darn well with either hand, but fine motor skills (for turning tiny knobs to select those 760 channel radios and picking out waypoints with the Garmin dialect) are better done with your dominant hand.
I never ask people to accept that argument on face value - I tell them to lay out their panel, then practice with it in mockup - even if that means taping your radio stack to your desk and trying out the locations with the actual radios and knobs. That's one way for each individual to find out what works best for them.
Paul
Every time I see the cockpit of an 8, I wonder if the plans allow for placement of the throttle on the right side. Because, aside for the wannabe fighter pilots, most of us that learned to fly in Cessnas and Pipers are used to having the flight control in the left hand and throttle/prop in the right hand. Also, having the right hand free allows most of us non southpaws to copy clearance without removing a hand from the flight controls.Well, that is certainly one opinion, held by many, Charlie - but not all, including a lot of human factors people and test pilots I know. The argument for having a lot of stuff on the right is that you can fly pretty darn well with either hand, but fine motor skills (for turning tiny knobs to select those 760 channel radios and picking out waypoints with the Garmin dialect) are better done with your dominant hand.
I never ask people to accept that argument on face value - I tell them to lay out their panel, then practice with it in mockup - even if that means taping your radio stack to your desk and trying out the locations with the actual radios and knobs. That's one way for each individual to find out what works best for them.
Paul