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Old 03-17-2003 | 01:22 AM
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Alvin Souphound
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Default TX Stick/Control Incorrect?

I may have been taught to fly incorrectly. I learned in Germany on 2 & 3M gliders in the late sixties, using a Graupner Varioprop 2 stick TX. On 2 channel airplanes I use the left stick for rudder and right stick for elevator. On 3 channel I use the left stick for aileron, right stick for rudder and elevator. I have been flying my gliders this way, but recently purchased a glow plane, and the radio instructions show the RUDDER on the left stick, and AILERON on the right stick. Of course I could continue this way, but I want to help a young fella in the neighborhood to learn to fly but I don't want to start him off wrong. Has anybody run into this problem? Many other pilots (in Germany) flew my aircraft and I their's, and everyone's TX was set up the same way.

Thanks,