Warning to UK Dwellars: MaggieL visits in July

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by dar512

I visited Edinburgh once on business and they stuck me with a stick shift. I can drive stick, but shifting with the left hand, in addition to the mirror image thing, was a challenge. Luckily, the gas, brake, and clutch were in the usual positions or I'd be dead now.

I worry about sometime being in the right-hand seat of an aircraft where the pilot in command (who traditionally sits in the left-hand seat in airplanes) becomes incapacitated. I'm used to having the throttle in my right hand during approach.

If you think mixing up clutch and accelerator is bad, think about an airplane on approach...pushing with the throttle hand adds power, pushing with the stick/yoke hand puts the nose down.