For many years, my avatar has been an Attitude Indicator (that's newspeak for what we used to call an "Artificial Horizon," and my step-son calls a "Flatness Guage").

Not too long ago, I was staring at it and realized that it was showing a slight turn to the left. That was just NOT acceptable, so it is now reversed, and we are turning toward the right. More better this way.

Left turns in the airplane, okay.
Left turns politically, oh Hell NO!

To the uninitiated, who might compare it to a steering wheel, it now looks like it's turning left.

Yes, much better.

No politics in a non-political thread, please.

How about an airplane dipping its wings? As many times that I've looked at your avatar I couldn't tell what it was.

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Originally posted by Rawny:

To the uninitiated, who might compare it to a steering wheel, it now looks like it's turning left.

It does take a bit of interpreting. Look at it and you will see that the right wing is slightly below the horizon, the left wing is above the horizon.

Right wing low, we are banked to the right, so we are in a right turn.

The perspective might be throwing you off, as on this particular guage, the airplane appears stationery, while the horizon moves.

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Originally posted by 12131:

No politics in a non-political thread, please.

It's a political thread, yo. The first word of the title is "Political."

Banking left in an aircraft is always politically acceptable when it is the initiation of a strafing run.

sp: gauge

(The word doesn't look right to me with either spelling. I have to look it up.)

I hardly recognized you with your new avatar listing to starboard.

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Originally posted by Eponym:

sp: gauge

(The word doesn't look right to me with either spelling. I have to look it up.)

You are correct. Strange that my check-speller did not catch it.

Hell, I thought you were just pulling out of a dive.

He's pulling out of a left downward spiral...like the rest of the country!