Why The Pilot On The AeroPlane Are On The Left-Hand Side

• sand king

  6 Oct 06, 09:39

  Originally posted by the.owl:

  car driver seats are on the left hand side you idiot, only singapore cars are right hand side.

  Not only Singapore RHD leh... heres the countries which are RHD:
  Anguilla
  Antigua
  Australia
  Bahamas
  Bangladesh
  Barbados
  Bhutan
  Botswana
  British Virgin Islands
  Brunei
  Cayman Islands
  Channel Island
  Cooke Islands
  Cocos Island
  Cyprus
  Dominica
  Fiji
  Granada
  Guyana
  Hong Kong
  India
  Indonesia
  Ireland
  Isle of Man
  Jamaica
  Japan
  Kenya
  Kiribati
  Lesotho
  Macao
  Malawi
  Malaysia
  Malta
  Mauritius
  Montserrat
  Mozambique
  Namibia
  Naunu
  Nepal
  New Zealand
  Norfolk Islands
  Pakistan
  Papua New Guinea
  Pitcairin Island,
  St.Helena
  St.Kitts and Nevis
  St.Lucia
  St.Vincent
  Seychelles
  Singapore
  Solomon Islands
  Somalia
  South Africa
  Sri Lanka
  Suriname
  Swaziland
  Tanzania
  Thailand
  Tonga
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Turke and Caicos Islands
  Uganda, United Kingdom
  Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Zambia
  Zimbabwe
• de_middle

  6 Oct 06, 10:34

  Originally posted by milk_milk:

  haha...all of u all got it wrong....i'm working as a flight operations officer wif SIA... here goes... For commercial aircrafts, there's onli 2 america companies for it, namely the airbus and the boeing. Since america is left hand drive in its own native country, hence all aircrafts and cars are build that way in america. Thus a left sided aircraft! not what force and other physics bull-shit. LOL.

  oh no
• ditzy

  6 Oct 06, 10:37

  Fantastic, from talking about aeroplanes become which side of the car the driver takes.
• banzie

  6 Oct 06, 12:18

  no lah actually both side also can.
• kopiosatu

  6 Oct 06, 12:19

  Originally posted by banzie:

  no lah actually both side also can.

  technically both sides can, because the indicators are the same, looks like there's alot but they are the same.
  
  but traditionally, fixed wing pilots sit on the left. rotary wing pilots sit on the right.
• milk_milk

  6 Oct 06, 14:33

  anyway...for more basic info...the captain(wif 3 strips) is seated on the left hand side of the plane...but the first officer(wif 2 strips) is seated on the right. for airbus, the joystick they use is one thick shaft to control direction. For boeing, the joystick is held by 2 hands(somewhat like what a car like).
• ratchadapisek(soi17)

  6 Oct 06, 14:34

  Originally posted by milk_milk:

  anyway...for more basic info...the captain(wif 3 strips) is seated on the left hand side of the plane...but the first officer(wif 2 strips) is seated on the right. for airbus, the joystick they use is one thick shaft to control direction. For boeing, the joystick is held by 2 hands(somewhat like what a car like).

  brother, for basic info that isn't called a joystick
• Darkness_hacker99

  6 Oct 06, 14:39

  Left is the captain. right is the 1st officer. Behind the right is flight energineer.
• sanm

  6 Oct 06, 15:15

  the driver's seat in England is on the right. the Americans want to be different and arrange the driver's seat on the left. americans made planes therefore arranged the pilot's seat on the left and also make the alignmment of plane with the aerobridge to be on the left side of the kockpit to align.
  
  
• Lord_Of_Hayan

  6 Oct 06, 15:19

  I different. I learned driving from Mr Bean.
  
  
  
  I drive from the top of the car.
• milk_milk

  6 Oct 06, 19:28

  Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:

  Left is the captain. right is the 1st officer. Behind the right is flight energineer.

  Last time used to have flight engineer. Now they are of job since engineering maintanace are all computerised on board flights. So onli got captain & first officers onli for major airlines...maybe a few smaller and ulu airlines still do have flight engineer.
• |-|05|

  6 Oct 06, 21:35

  Originally posted by milk_milk:

  Last time used to have flight engineer. Now they are of job since engineering maintanace are all computerised on board flights. So onli got captain & first officers onli for major airlines...maybe a few smaller and ulu airlines still do have flight engineer.

  i was under the impression only newer models like the 767-777 and all the airbus planes have no flight engineer(i'm talking about bigger commercial planes).While the older 747 and 737,757,MD11's still have
• Scuby

  6 Oct 06, 21:49

  Originally posted by milk_milk:

  haha...all of u all got it wrong....i'm working as a flight operations officer wif SIA... here goes... For commercial aircrafts, there's onli[b] 2 america companies for it, namely the airbus[/b] and the boeing. Since america is left hand drive in its own native country, hence all aircrafts and cars are build that way in america. Thus a left sided aircraft! not what force and other physics bull-shit. LOL.

  Stupid...Airbus is not from America but from European Union.
• ctstalin

  6 Oct 06, 22:01

  Originally posted by milk_milk:

  haha...all of u all got it wrong....i'm working as a flight operations officer wif SIA... here goes... For commercial aircrafts, there's onli 2 america companies for it, namely the airbus and the boeing. Since america is left hand drive in its own native country, hence all aircrafts and cars are build that way in america. Thus a left sided aircraft! not what force and other physics bull-shit. LOL.

  i tot boeing is american while airbus is european?
  
  edit: oops...someone posted before me