Title: Method and apparatus for the safe and beautiful solo flight of side-by-side dual-control aircraft from centerplane seat

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Abstract: To enable a single pilot to make a safe and beautiful SOLO flight of a side-by-side dual-control airplane, the pilot is provided with a seat and seatbelts which seat him in the centerplane of the airplane, his right hand being placed on the right grip of the right control wheel, his left hand being placed on the left grip of the left control wheel, and his feet being placed on the two outboard rudder pedals, thereby permitting him to control the airplane with conventional motions. He leans sideward and/or diagonally forward to the right or left windows and/or elbow rests, banking and/or pitching the airplane while scanning the view, traffic and weather. Thus from the vantage point of the centerplane seat, the SOLO pilot can execute in less than a minute a prescribed routine of 0 percent BLIND maneuvers characteristic of his airplane type, whether it has the pilot seated ahead of, under, or over, the wing. This performance contrasts with a conventional left seat solo pilot who flies BLIND in 45 to 70 percent of the sphere of solid angle centered at his nose.


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