Posted: 12/14/2007 8:03:20 PM EDT
| In a fixed wing aircraft, the aircraft commander sits in the left seat. In a helicopter, the A/'C sits in the right seat, why? I was in an American Legion talking to a soldier who told me that he was a Blackhawk crew chief, when I asked him his response was "Why do fixed wing A/Cs sit in the left seat?' (He didn't know either). Dumb ass answers = fail. |
| I asked this same question about 4 weeks ago. The best answer was, that controlling the cyclic (the "joy stick") requires more manual dexterity than controlling the collective (the one that looks like a parking brake, and has both the throttle and the blade pitch on it). so a right-handed pilot would sit where the cyclic was in his right hand, and the collective in his left. |
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It depends on what kind of helicopter it is, on some the pilot in command sits in the left seat, some are right seat, Bell is a good example of a right seat for pilot in command. A little checking around found that there has been a movement to the right seat, left seat PIC is still an option on many helicopters. www.aerospaceweb.org/question/helicopters/q0072.shtml |