Starboard red ..... Port green

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

I'm not a pilot, but I thought that part of the SOP before taking off was to waggle all the controls and look out the window to see that they were functioning properly... Not so??

Jim

Yep, is so!

Controls free and easy and operate in the correct sense.

Of course often you can't see the elevators but you can feel the weight. Stick back feels heavy, stick forward is light. You can almost always see the ailerons but some pilots look but can't see...

Further more, any maintenance work on flight controls require separate independent duplicate inspection but again, there are always some careless folk around in any industry...

[Hoosiersailor]

Originally Posted by buzzstar

Unclear to me why no one has said it: Since Oz is "down under," things are up-side-down. Unless you are there. It is a mirror image of the way things are [up over?] and ought to be, so the confusion is normal, sort of like vinyl record had a Side A and a Side B, which also explains the navigation areas as created by international bureaucrats, depending upon how one spins things. It also explains why the most obvious way of installing steering cable can cause it to work in reverse. If their earlier parent country had driven on the other side, everything would be properly reversed.

It's only because the toilets swirl backwards.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by buzzstar

Unclear to me why no one has said it: Since Oz is "down under," things are up-side-down. Unless you are there. It is a mirror image of the way things are [up over?] and ought to be, so the confusion is normal, sort of like vinyl record had a Side A and a Side B, which also explains the navigation areas as created by international bureaucrats, depending upon how one spins things. It also explains why the most obvious way of installing steering cable can cause it to work in reverse. If their earlier parent country had driven on the other side, everything would be properly reversed.

Allow me to make it clear to you.

We are down under, vertically not horizontally so port / starboard and bow / stern remain the same.

You might that because of that we would anti-foul our mast and set sails on the keel but for some reason unclear to me we don't.