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On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Robert Dorsett wrote to Thomas Russell Hong:

> >	Yep!  And so were all the sticks used in real fighter jets, and
> >since TM sticks are patterned after the real fighter planes' sticks,
> >well...  And the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy's policy to lefties is, 
> >learn to fly with your right hand, or look for another line of work!  (g)
> 
> In the civilian sector, you learn to fly with your left hand.  If you
> become a flight instructor, you fly with your right hand.  If you become
> an airline pilot, you fly with your left hand, as a first officer.  When
> you become a captain, you fly with your left hand.  If you become a train-
> ing captain, you fly with either hand, since you can switch seats every
> other day.

	And I was merely pointing out why the TM stuff is biased toward
righties in answer to the original poster's observations.

> And to answer the man's question, CH produces the FlightStick Pro, which
> does not have contours that would offend in either direction.  And which,
> in my opinion, is *far* superior, both in craftsmanship and performance, 
> to the Thrustmaster stuff.  The Thrustmaster setup merely looks "cooler."

	Not only do they merely look cooler, they are replicas of the real 
sticks in military jets.  IMHO I like TM much better than the CH sticks 
because the PFCS got more resistance and I can actually feel the stick's 
position because of it.

TRH Sends
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Thomas Russell Hong
Columbia University in the City of New York
Department of Biological Sciences
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The W3 USNF Graphical Landing Tutorial on my WWW homepage:  
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