I don’t spend a lot of time on flight sim and if weather is nice I fly as much as possible.

  Many may not have flown back when there was left hand turn rule at clubs.
 Of course wind direction played a role on take off but everyone had to fly in a counter clockwise direction like race tracks when 1 or more were in the air.
 I can fly great using left hand turns requiring roll,pitch and yaw at all speeds but right hand turns I am not good at all.
 If I get into trouble or panic mode I go to left hand turns ASAP.

  Anyone else have a direction of turning they prefer and how to develop other direction of turning?

Yes, and it isn't just flying.  Riding motorcycles on the street not so much but when road racing on the track I prefer left turns to right.  

I think it might be based on if you're right or left handed.

The only fix I know of is for you to just train more/harder on your weak side....

(07-Nov-2020, 04:52 PM)Krohsis Wrote: Yes, and it isn't just flying.  Riding motorcycles on the street not so much but when road racing on the track I prefer left turns to right.  

I think it might be based on if you're right or left handed.

The only fix I know of is for you to just train more/harder on your weak side....

What kind of bike do you track?

I had a 2003 gsx-r 600 and was planning to build a track bike, but I never got around to it and ended up selling it in 2008 — had k&n filter, yoshi rs3 exh, and aftermarket sprocket. - no suspension mods

In regards to certain turns, I can relate this to working out.  When I began lifting heavy and consistently, my left shoulder was much weaker.  I used dumbbells to train my left shoulder and balance the strength out.

Same thing with my quads, I make myself turn in both directions.  I visit a park and burn some packs just doing basic turns to build myself and never struggle going one direction or the other.

I am new to this community and hobby, but I apply my basic concepts, ideas, thoughts, and experience from the past.

@rob — how long have you been flying? I built my first drone in March - June and began flying in July. I am fairly new to the whole thing but I am building skills as I set myself a goal each time I go fly.

I seem to lean mostly towards left-hand turns for some reason. I don't know why I find those easier than right-hand turns but I just do. Some of my footage looks a bit silly because most of the turns end up being left-hand turns, but muscle memory takes over and they just happen automatically. I have to really concentrate and make an effort to do right-hand turns because those don't seem to come naturally or automatically at all. The problem is, once that habit is ingrained, it's hard to shake off.

I'm right-handed so I don't know if there is any connection to that.

For sure in a real stick based plane as the sailplanes I flew you always have a preferred turning direction and for right handed pilots it's almost invariably the left turn but unlike with our radio transmitters this is due to the right elbow being the "pivot" and on right turns it's constrained between your side and the cockpit.

I have been flying for 2 years and still have to fight the tendency to roll or turn to one side out of habit /muscle memory.

I can do fast roll and trick moves to the right side pretty naturally but struggles to reverse the same trick moves towards the left side. Just need lots more SIM or stick time to train the brain/fingers control.

(07-Nov-2020, 06:04 PM)luispequeno Wrote: What kind of bike do you track?

I had a 2003 gsx-r 600 and was planning to build a track bike, but I never got around to it and ended up selling it in 2008 — had k&n filter, yoshi rs3 exh, and aftermarket sprocket. - no suspension mods

In regards to certain turns, I can relate this to working out.  When I began lifting heavy and consistently, my left shoulder was much weaker.  I used dumbbells to train my left shoulder and balance the strength out.

Same thing with my quads, I make myself turn in both directions.  I visit a park and burn some packs just doing basic turns to build myself and never struggle going one direction or the other.

I am new to this community and hobby, but I apply my basic concepts, ideas, thoughts, and experience from the past.

I raced various bikes over the years in various classes, A Superstock Expert, A Superbike Expert, C Superstock Expert, BOTT (battle of the twins), etc.  But the last few years before I quit I raced Formula 2 Expert on a Yamaha TZ250.  The most challenging bike to race and prep, but the most rewarding as well.

from hardware side; roll to the right or yaw to the left is the more easy job to coordinate by hand, yaw is lefthand work and roll right hand work. depending on which axis you struggle more with stearing, this will determinate which corners you like more.

i like to fly left corners a bit more, i beleive its because my right thumb does the job better on the left part of the gimbal on the right side, right-handed...
i beleive the gimbal-way to the middle of the transmitter is the importent part:

I’ll have to start doing figure 8’s and circles.
Left hand turns I can put craft where I want it but right hand turns I’m not able to mix roll,rudder and pitch like I do with left hand turns.
I get bored flying figure 8’s but sooner or later a right hand turn will be needed to avoid a tree or worse,lol.

rates could improve the handling probably, next to sticktime

(08-Nov-2020, 06:09 PM)Rob3ddd Wrote: I’ll have to start doing figure 8’s and circles.
Left hand turns I can put craft where I want it but right hand turns I’m not able to mix roll,rudder and pitch like I do with left hand turns.
 I get bored flying figure 8’s but sooner or later a right hand turn will be needed to avoid a tree or worse,lol.

  Now that I think about it even when I raced off road left hand turns I always did better.
 In fact I won the oval many times and could keep in the lines because it was all left turns.
 Racing off road course I was lucky to finish in the top 4 because a right hand turn ended up slowing me down.

I am left-handed, and I find that left turns are better, but I am trying to learn and practice right turns.

Guess I'm the odd one out. If I have a panic moment where there's no people, I just do my best to skip through as best I can. If there are people, I go for a snowboard style brake.

Sometimes I get stuff like this. Sorry bout the poor quality. Eventually I'll share clips via my own server so YouTube can't mangle them.


Edit: Also I didn't realize how old this thread was.

Not an old concept though I fly a lot of precision aerobatics with airplanes, like pattern planes for instance, not FPV. Besides breaking the habit of preferring to turn one way or another it takes a lot of work to make roll and pitch rates and stops the same in both directions and in particular the tendency to blend unwanted pitch or throttle interactions when rolling or yawing. All of this from the physical way your fingers move and the geometry with the transmitter sticks.
I think the best way to train through this (if you want to) is to think about maneuvers, the geometry, and fly them precisely in different directions, while trying to make the moves look the same.