Although i say 'left and right' when playing the wife as she hasnt got a clue which way port and starboard are and can never remember which is which... which is odd considering they are said in the same order as left and right

Just remember that "port" and "Left" are both four letters

I use hard for turns, easy for banks and K-Turn for the Split S. However I do call the easy 1 left "listing lazily to the left".

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I tend to say "Hard" 1, 2, or 3; or "Bank" 1, 2, or 3 myself.

The person who taught me said "hard" or "soft", but I really need to break the habit...bank and turn are much better.

Turns: Hard, sharp.

Banks: Soft, gentle.

K-Turns: Flippy-aroundy.

Although i say 'left and right' when playing the wife as she hasnt got a clue which way port and starboard are and can never remember which is which... which is odd considering they are said in the same order as left and right

Just remember that "port" and "Left" are both four letters

Another kind of mnemonic is to make your hands into "L" shapes (or imagine them). The port/left side will be a proper L shape.

Yeah the wife struggles remembering left and right (she's not thick, she's university lecturer.. just can never remember it straight away and has to do the L shape thing at times)... makes giving her directions while driving a nightmare

Also I've a tendency to call K's crazy Ivan's that sometimes gets an odd look.

Yeah, but a crazy ivan is a completely different submariner term. Comes from when a heavy sub makes a sudden super hard turn, mainly to see if an attack sub is trying to hide in the blind spot of their propellers.

But still, I just can't think "K-turn" when doing any maneuvers...

The only real problem I have with the K-turn, is the history, the wiki makes it sound likenit was only invented in the Galactic civil war.. when it should have been around for thousands of years... that part irks me..

As to the port and sratboard issue.. as an ex-sailor, we used to do all sorts of things to try and get new guys to get it right, if they hadn't figured it out in bootcamp.

I even tied colored cloth to one guys boots.. red on his left boot, and green on his right.. lol. I like Gadge and Dagobahdaves ideas too, those would work well..

Yeah the wife struggles remembering left and right (she's not thick, she's university lecturer.. just can never remember it straight away and has to do the L shape thing at times)... makes giving her directions while driving a nightmare

Very smart people sometimes push out unimportant things for more important things.. Einstein was famous for that as well.. she's in good company.. lol

to me and my friends we feel like bank sounds more extreme than turn but we try to be correct

Technically a bank maneuver is a gradual turn for a given ship or plane.. so it fits perfectly of course.

The true issue, in my view, is the ignorance of most people of certain terms used for aircraft and such.

I'm not trying to insult people here, but ignorant just means lack of knowledge.. which many have.. I admit I am ignorant of lots of things, and I dont get into discussions where I have that issue..

It can be solved by some crash course term instruction when learning the game. I findni retain what my instructor teaches and the verbiage he uses.

Technically a bank maneuver is a gradual turn for a given ship or plane.. so it fits perfectly of course.

The true issue, in my view, is the ignorance of most people of certain terms used for aircraft and such.

I'm not trying to insult people here, but ignorant just means lack of knowledge.. which many have.. I admit I am ignorant of lots of things, and I dont get into discussions where I have that issue..

It can be solved by some crash course term instruction when learning the game. I findni retain what my instructor teaches and the verbiage he uses.

We use hard, lazy, and k turn, and I play with a bunch of guys who work on/fly aircraft. I feel it is perfectly acceptable to forget technical terms in favor of whatever that particular group want's to call things.

I use Hard and Bank for the turns and K-Turn among older players and "flip turn" with my 8 year old son.

When performing a green maneuver to clear stress, the pilot is "flying casual".

I've seen this a lot. Someone saying "hard 2" or "soft 2".

Personally I refer to them as banks and turns. I say "2-turn" or "2-bank".

So how do you refer to a specific maneuver template?

I say hard or soft, it rolls off the tongue easier than bank or turn.

Looks like I'm in the minority but I normally say sharp and sometimes say hard, then say gentle for the banks

I don't know what the big fuss is. Actual pilots have been using "colorful" terminology for technical flight terms for years.

Technically they would call 180 turns [K-turns] "Bat turns". Or I guess you could call the turns by their degree vector.

limp 2, hard 2

Yeah the wife struggles remembering left and right (she's not thick, she's university lecturer.. just can never remember it straight away and has to do the L shape thing at times)... makes giving her directions while driving a nightmare

"Turn right here. No, your other right"