On Feb 3, 9:14*am, "Jim Wilkins" wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:32:37 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

Backing a trailer straight across an open parking lot is a challenge for
me.

It's hard to reverse your thinking and drive counterintuitively, isn't
it? *"To move the trailer to the right, turn the steering wheel to the
left." *Then I look at double and triple trailers and get all goosey.

For me the worst one was trying to taxi a Cessna 152 with the toe brakes. I
can't leave a straight wake behind a sailboat either.

jsw

I never had trouble taxiing - left brake = turn left, right brake =
turn right. The "problem" I had with cessnas is the blasted rear-view
mirror. A minute after takeoff, looking in the mirror SHOULD show the
runway right behind you. Never happened for me - it was always off to
one side or the other. Of course this wasn't the plane's fault, but if
it didn't have that blasted mirror, I never would have known ;-)