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.
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Left Handed Pilots? Haha
- Thread starter georgiaboy
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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.
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
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.
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.
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.
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
A good friend would offer to lend a helping hand.
Righty here, I keep my kneeboard away from the center of the cockpit in the 57 (left leg for left seat, right leg for right seat.) Has more to do with ergonomics (cyclic impacting the kneeboard which then hits the pilot's collective, blocking range of travel) than anything else. I don't fly with a second kneeboard or approach strap - that's what copilots are for.
NOTE: Kneeboards worn on the left seat pilot's left leg significantly increase the area of control interference and should not be worn on the left left if possible.
That sounds dangerously close to "CRM."