There are lots of left-handed helicopter pilots in RL who fly with their right hand! (My wife was one of them!)

That's interesting to hear. There's a company in my town that makes planes, Cirrus. Most if not all of their planes that I've seen have a throttle in the center of the cockpit between the two pilots and each pilot gets a side stick. For the pilot, his side stick is on the left and so he flies with his left hand.

I've asked people that work for the company if that has bothered any customers (I swore if I had one I would end up flying the plane from the right seat) but they said pretty much what you just said, "give it a try, it's easier than you think!"

Yep. Slightly different topic but I was also once a check-airman on the Airbus A320. Pilots transitioning to that often thought getting used to the side-stick. One trip around the circuit and most would never go back. It's the head. It's the head. It's the head.

Just wanted to say that I've been flying Black Shark now with the advanced flight model exclusively for a couple of weeks and its been great! The trimmer is really a life saver for me and the more I use it, the easier it is for me to accomplish my mission goals and live.

This is a fantastic simulation indeed.

I first learned to fly in a Cessna (left seat; left hand on yoke and right hand on throttles), but it was no problem switching to the T-34 (tandem seating; center stick, left power control levers) and on to the TH-57 (right seat; center stick, left collective). Swapping control placement and seat positions seemed to take about 10 hours before it was natural. It was worse switching from right to left seat in the helo since it messed up my hover scan. The hardest transition has been from a single elevator trim wheel in the Cessna, to three full trim wheels in the T-34, followed by the cyclic trim in the TH-57. The MH-60 uses cyclic trim, a four-way hat switch, heading trim and collective trim, but it's grey instead of orange and white, so I'll deal.

Just takes time in model, I guess (says the FNG).