Hey guys, I got to thinking today in class(high school)--- from what I've seen, most/all aviators have a notepad/logbook on their right knee on their flightsuit. For left-handed pilots do they just put it on their left knee? Just curious. And also, is flying a left-hand/right-hand thing, or does everyone use the same hand, sort of like everyone drives(or should drive) with their right foot? Thanks so much for answering my questions. If you couldn't tell, i'm left handed. -Luke
Flown with a couple of pilots who would wear a kneeboarding on their left thigh. One had to turn it "in" so the collective wouldn't catch on it.
I'm right handed and wear mine on the left knee. Haven't had any problems hitting the collective. I didn't like it under my cyclic arm.
Sometimes I have a KB on the right, some sort of gouge/gradecard/area profile tucked into my g-suit on the left, and am wondering if I'm going to need to use TWO KBs in instruments...
Left handed NFO, wear the kneeboard on my right knee. Easier to write with. Also kept me from elbowing the pilot.
Left handed pilot. I had to sit and think for some time which leg I wear a kneeboard on (and I do wear one). Simple answer to your question is it isn't a factor. You'll figure out what works and be fine.
Go to the NEX and get one of the clear leg straps. That should be good enough. I used two kneeboards, but only because I had one with clips on top and bottom for clipping in the approach plates.
You're gonna need two, as well as duct tape so you can afix the high charts to the sides of the canopy...
I fly the jet right hand on the stick and left on the throttle (obviously---not much choice in the matter) but when it comes to flying GA aircraft I'm much more comfortable flying in the left seat with my left hand on the yoke and right on the throttle. It's really what you get used to.
You have a pic or link to that type? If they're compact enough I might consider looking into one of those. I'm a righty. I use one KB on the right and a clear leg strap for approaches, charts, w/e on the left.
Notepad/kneeboard card/blue brain on the left and approach plates on the right. that way I can write something down and not have to flip stuff around.
To be honest, the one I had was the old-style issue one and it's pretty clunky. You could probably rig one out of two clipboards or something pretty easily that would be pretty compact. Found this on sporty's. You could proly use it for plates too... http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/9220 The one I have is something like this: (big and clunky but works my skinny legs ) http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/9206
Unless you're doing something that's really product/note intensive (CAS, etc), I can't really see the need for two kneeboards. But that's just me.
Yeah, the velcro strap thing will work just fine for 90% of what we have to do. I just did it 'cause I was too lazy to drive down to wings (before the NEX had them) and get the strap.
I'm imagining you writing on both kneeboards at the exact same time. Honestly, I can't see the point of two kneeboards. If it's instruments, the leg strap on the other leg works fine. After awhile I just started clipping the approach plate to my kneeboard and writing directly on the plate.
Rightie. Learned to write left handed (poorly) when I was in the left seat since our clipboard is up against the window. AC sits right seat, so I'm back to writing clearances legibly again.
I actually heard a conversation about this years ago in Cherry Point. SAR pilot: "I was going to fly jets, but I'm left handed, so you know.....they wouldn't let me because of flying the ball." Me: "Uh.......what? I've never heard of that." SAR pilot: "It's true. Left handed people cannot fly jets." Since then I have done extremely non-scientific surveys on this and have concluded that left handed pilots are actually OVER represented in the TACAIR community by a small percentage. No idea why, but I would guess that since we're all learning how to do this essentially from scratch, we all figure out what to do with our dominate hand just fine on our own.
Know a few lefties and asked them the same questions. Like everyone, they trail and error their way to what works best for them. Fwiw, I'm a rightie, kneeboard on the right always, plate strap on the left during instruments, otherwise stashed with my IFR pubs should we have to shoot an approach unexpectedly.
