ORIGINAL: Campgems
|'ve fought with this since I started a couple years back. I don't use a neck strap and maybe this is part of my problem. If you grasp the TX and look at the movement your sticks make when you move your thumb, the movements are likely not naturally N E S W but more likely W would WxSW and E would be ExNE. This drives me nuts on final making my left turn ans the plane ballons up on me.
I think the natural movement of a thumb/forefinger grasp would track more along the lines of N E S W.
I believe you are spot on with this assessment. I also think this is why Right-handed individuals find it easier, in general, to make a left-handed pattern to final approach. The movement of the thumb to the NW quadrant on the gimble is a more natural movement. We have one individual in our club who's been flying for years and never makes a right hand approach to final. He always crosses the center line at the approach end and begins a 270 degree left hand turn to landing. I believe that Lefties on Mode 1(?) suffer the same predicament only in the other direction.
I almost forgot to mention, I'm a thumb flyer
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