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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 5, 2017 13:40:44 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 5, 2017 13:41:58 GMT 12
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Post by TS on Dec 5, 2017 14:12:52 GMT 12
Interesting.... I was always told that the original reason why the pilot is on the left side of the cockpit is because of days long gone by (1914-18 circa) when the pilot was usually an officer from the horse regiments. They climbed into the cockpit on the left side of the aircraft because they had their sword on their left hip and could only cock their right leg into the cockpit first to get in then hand the sword over. So because of that things just progressed from there and stayed left. So Have I been told PORKIES or not?  |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 5, 2017 14:18:41 GMT 12
Who knows?
That pilot has several rather interesting videos on his YouTube channel.
It appears he has just started a weekly video magazine about stuff to do with being an airline pilot, of which the two clips above are the first two episodes.
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Post by horicle on Dec 5, 2017 15:03:05 GMT 12
Try this
Most of our rules of the air have an origin in the rules of the sea. Just a 3D version. Interestingly the British set up a committee in 1846 to upgrade the rules of the sea to accommodate the new steamships. These manoeuvred without consideration of the wind and the additions where mainly about this.
It was decreed that in navigable channels and head on approaches steamships would pass to the right. This put the ‘confrontation’ side of a vessel on the left (port) side. That is where the captain would position himself (were there herself’s then). The unintended consequence came a little bit later when motor vehicles started to appear. In many (almost all) countries were there were no defined road rules it made sense to adapt an existing set of rules, of the sea. Except Britain where the silly basterds who set the rules of the sea had always driven on the left. In these other countries the driver sat on the left. Did you see it coming.
Why. The clue lies in TS’s post about swords. I think they had something to do with how you mounted a horse. Like TS’s observation about getting into cockpits. And on the roads of Britain horsemen passed right to right in case that sword was needed (no lefties need apply). That’s Britain, those other countries had got past the sword and sat the driver where he/she was needed.
So I get three reasons for the captain being on the port side.
In an old side by side open cockpit it is easiest to get into.
In an old side by side open cockpit behind an engine of the day (prop rotation) it gets the clearest air.
When flying in airways or circuit patterns the ‘conflict’ side is usually set to be the port side.
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