Are you a pilot that only turns to the left, or can you turn left and right with no problem. If this is you then this short article will be of no use to you. However if you can fly left hand circles all day and have trouble turning to the right. Read on this may help you understand why this is the case.
If you have difficulty making a right hand turn the chances are you are RIGHT handed. Most of the population are right handed, and the right and left turns are a brain issue. If you are left handed the reverse is normally the case. If you are right handed, left turns come more naturally than right.
Have a look at other sports, motor racing and other track sports. Most of the time they are making left hand turns or complete left hand circuits as is the case with a lot of motor sports, NASCAR for example. I am talking generally here and I know there are exceptions in every case.
With this in mind, how do you make a right hand turn with a model aircraft I hear you say. It's all about practice, practice, and practice some more. In reality turning right is no more difficult than turn left, it just seems more difficult. In some cases the instructor may have difficulty in making a right hand turn.
When ever you go out flying practice flying a horizontal figure of "8", doing this you will fly a left and a right hand turn together. Everyone also has a preference to the direction they fly, left to right or right to left. This will often show up when people fly aerobatics.
I used to belong to a club many years ago that had it written in the rules to take off and turn LEFT. If a right hand turn was required after take off, the pit area was moved to the other side of the runway so you could make a left turn.
If you have difficulty making a right hand turn, you may crash a model because you turn left when a right turn would have been much safer and the model could landed without incident.
If you practice right hand turns they will become second nature to you just as left hand turns have become.
Martin.
If you have difficulty making a right hand turn the chances are you are RIGHT handed. Most of the population are right handed, and the right and left turns are a brain issue. If you are left handed the reverse is normally the case. If you are right handed, left turns come more naturally than right.
Have a look at other sports, motor racing and other track sports. Most of the time they are making left hand turns or complete left hand circuits as is the case with a lot of motor sports, NASCAR for example. I am talking generally here and I know there are exceptions in every case.
With this in mind, how do you make a right hand turn with a model aircraft I hear you say. It's all about practice, practice, and practice some more. In reality turning right is no more difficult than turn left, it just seems more difficult. In some cases the instructor may have difficulty in making a right hand turn.
When ever you go out flying practice flying a horizontal figure of "8", doing this you will fly a left and a right hand turn together. Everyone also has a preference to the direction they fly, left to right or right to left. This will often show up when people fly aerobatics.
I used to belong to a club many years ago that had it written in the rules to take off and turn LEFT. If a right hand turn was required after take off, the pit area was moved to the other side of the runway so you could make a left turn.
If you have difficulty making a right hand turn, you may crash a model because you turn left when a right turn would have been much safer and the model could landed without incident.
If you practice right hand turns they will become second nature to you just as left hand turns have become.
Martin.
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