i discovered the reason why everybody turns left after playing rof

[PeterPanPan]

Originally Posted by mazex

Don't know if it's different in the southern hemisphere?

/mazex

In the southern hemisphere, they fly inverted of course

[swiss]

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

In the southern hemisphere, they fly inverted of course

That's exactly what pigeons do when they fly over Mexico...

[mazex]

And to clarify why I started talking about if it's the other way around down under is because I have always had a feeling it has something to do with the Coriolis effect that all pilots that has studied meteorology knows about (and many more certainly) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

Looking around on the net there seems to be some understandning that the "normal" righthandedness has something to do with it. Look at golfers... Almost all do the swing in a rotation "to the left" where the club starts on the right. And like I said, go to the Alps and look at the standard "stop turn" for people going downhill skiing. Left in almost all cases.

And even though I have many hundreds of flying hours IRL it still feels better to turn left

[fifi]

Haha...i never noticed it, but that's right! I much prefer turning left
Even in ROF. But i don't fly DR1...
Here in southern hemisphere it's the same lol

[BadAim]

Musashi recommended to "always chase your opponent to the left". That way you are advancing from your strength, and he's retreating into his weakness, along with several other advantages.

I once took a pistol class with a left handed Japanese guy. It seems that it's bad luck to be left handed in Japan, so all his life he had been forced to do everything right handed. He is now effectively ambidextrous. He embarrassed all of us in the weak hand drills.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

In the southern hemisphere, they fly inverted of course

Actually here in Australia, instead of flying circuits the traditional holding pattern is vertical loops with an Immelman onto final. its also traditional to do a low flypast to scatter any roos or sheep that have wandered onto the runway.

It reduces pilot boredom, one of the known factors in aviation accidents.

For the same reason we have banned turbines ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkcX0KGIBwk

As a result Aussie aviation is one of the safest in the world.