Scorpio47

True, for traditional reasons, the rotor in the Gazelle generates right turning tendency however.... so you have to counteract by pressing right rudder... Or do it with the other hand, like the Airbus pilot who sits on the left and has the flight stick also on the left side, whereas the FO sits in the right seat and uses his right hand for the flight stick..... It is all a question of how you are trained, just like stick versus yoke for instance....

and any news since June 7 ??????

Have you ever asked yourself why in a helicopter the Pilot seat is on the RIGHT side, whereas in fixed planes (and cars...) it is on the left? Ok, the reason is that you fly a helicopter always with a light turn to the left which means that the pilot sits in the most forward position.... If you observe a helicopter fly a course it will always take a heading a tad to the left of that course (reason is the well known rotor torque of course....). So, it is absolutely normal that a helo will tend to get off course to the right unless you make that slight correction with the rudder to keep it on course

I am equally stupid then...

Thank you very much gentlemen for all your suggestions and Art-J is correct: it WORKS... BUT: it needed some experimenting to find out the correct keys to use and what I did for that was to reprogram the command with another button on my keyboard if which I thought it would not be used for anything else.. But what happened was a bit strange. I use a QWERTZ German layout and replaced the \ shown in the list of commands by ´ (accute accent) onyl to be surprised by what that produced! It showed = as a result, but that is actually above the 0 (zero) on my keyboard. OK, I thought, let´s find out what they use to produce the \ and oh miracle: I found the # is used for that .... !! So, now that I know that, I have reset the command to the original backslash and use the number sign # on my keyboard to produce that - and it actually works! It is pretty obvious after this experiment that the command table refers to the the U.S. layout, because there the \ is on the button above the right shift (where the German layout has the #) and the = is just left of the backspace button, where the German has the ´ So, PROBLEM SOLVED! For others with similar problems: check the key assigments in the general settings and also for the individual airplane you want to fly, because they MIGHT differ. Thank you all, I can now call the ground crew and get my chocks set ;-)

I am sure this will be a more general problem, but I have not found much on this: I purchased the L39 today and want to do the first tutorial.... When the instructor asks to open radio communication with the \ button, nothing happens... I have reasssigned the communications menu to < and also to a joystick button, but unfortunatly without result... Does anyone here have an idea what the problem might be and how to solve that? Without this it is absolutely useless to try and do the tutorials an most probably also any other flights.... Thank you! Scorpio47