It depends on the cockpit seating layout, really. If you are siting side-by-side in aircraft, most - not all - will have the throttle and related components in

It depends on the cockpit seating layout, really. If you are siting side-by-side in aircraft, most - not all - will have the throttle and related components in the center console, so they aren't duplicated and can be used from both seats. By necessity a pilot in command, seated on the left, will fly with his/her stick in the left hand and right on throttle/everything else. It just happens to be that most civil aircraft cockpits have this configuration. A yoke or side stick can stand in for a center mounted control stick in this configuration and is simply a design factor. If you are sitting in an aircraft with a single seat operation (i.e., no center console) the throttle will usually be placed somewhere to the left of the pilot, so the controls change - right on the stick and left for the throttle. You'd almost never see anything other than a center stick in this configuration, but there are aircraft with side sticks, like the F-16 and F-22. There are some exceptions, particularly where side-by-side seating is more specialized and not duplicated. See: Siai Marchetti SF 260 (notice duplicated throttle on left) : http://tagazous.free.fr/affichage2.php?img=8451 http://tagazous.free.fr/affichage2.php?img=8451 A6 Intruder (Right seat is not a capable of flying aircraft) : https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a1/32/a8/a132a868a021fd6bb755deb7b38b3a02.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a1/32/a8/a132a868a...