Re: Why starboard side steering?
Thanx guys, and djohns19.<br /><br />Did do a bit of searching as you suggested but found if anything ,here at least motor configuration paid heed to common practice. I suspect that if anything manufacturers followed conventional lead for the general idea that steering leverage of one sort or another would come from the right. <br /> I am a pilot also and understand the need or advantage of the left seat. Traffic patterns in general are counter-clockwise at an airfield of any sort. The pilot-in-command has the best advantage and view of the situation from the left seat. Note that helicopters fly in a clockwise approach pattern at the same field! The pilot-in-command of that helicopter sits in the right seat....<br /><br />So, why not, when the "rules of the road" are pass to the right, absent other direction, do we not have the "command" seat in the best position to observe the action (such as we do with automobiles)? In British terrotories we drive on the left,sit on the right, presumably to "see" the action!<br /><br />Just a thought: Horse and car racing in this country is done to the counter-clockwise. Why? Simply because we, as a brand new republic sought to distance ourselves as much as possible from our oppressive homeland. In England racing is all done clockwise! I just have to believe that this must tie in with starboard side steering. Those folks have a superior, if not longer heritage with the seas.<br /><br />Any ideas guys? Thanx again
