Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Much flying terminology is derived from the navy; we have a captain and a first officer, who are both pilots. The aircraft has a rudder, which yaws it to port or starboard. We flightplan in nautical miles and measure speed in knots.

Every day's a schoolday for such an open-minded, inquisitve fellow as yourself, sw. wd.
Do you use port and starboard as terms then??

Always seems massively ****ed up to me. What is wrong with right and left.