Talk:Port (nautical)

IALA area B: Americas, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines IALA area A: Everywhere else

Mnemonics

There is another sailor's mnemonic for starboard and port, having to do with channel markers, which goes "Red on right returning." Thought it might be useful. O0drogue0o (talk) 09:47, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Would it not be easier for Port and Starboard to be merged? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.153.190.59 (talk) 12:57, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Aircraft and spacecraft

Though I've held a Commercial Pilot rating for over 25 years, I've never heard any flight instructor or other pilot refer to the left side of an airplane or helicopter as "port", or the right side as "starboard". This may be true for seaplanes, but certainly not for land-based aircraft. The concept is totally meaningless in spacecraft, where there is no "up" or "down". Who makes up this stuff?—Quicksilver^{T @} 21:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Regarding spacecraft, try this NASA google search I can see "attached to the port side of the S0 truss", "the port side of the Space Station", and it says, 245,000 others. Let's try Boeing... There's "spraying pod mounted under port-side wing", "The Lufthansa brand name on the port-side nose" and 111,000 others. So it's not that uncommon. --Nigelj (talk) 21:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC)