Patent ID: 8052097

Claim:
A rotorcraft including at least a main lift and propulsion rotor and a cockpit comprising: a left seat and a right seat placed side-by-side and having respective axes for their installation in the cockpit that are spaced apart by a spacing; a central console extending at least in part in the spacing between the seats; and two side sticks enabling the pilot and the copilot to control roll and cyclic pitch; the rotorcraft including a flight control system having sensors associated with the side sticks and at least one computer connected to the sensors and converting the orders applied by the pilot to the side sticks into electrical or optical signals for controlling actuators associated with the rotor in order to vary roll and cyclic pitch; wherein: one of the side sticks is situated to the right of the right seat and the other side stick is situated to the left of the left seat; at least one piloting relationship integrated in the computer stabilizes the response of the rotorcraft in roll and in cyclic pitch when a side stick is actuated and maintains the roll and cyclic pitch attitudes at reference values when neither side stick is actuated; and the cockpit includes two members for controlling collective pitch and engine power, the members being coupled together mechanically or electrically, one of the members being situated to the left of the right seat and the other being situated to the right of the left seat, the two members for controlling collective pitch being located between the central console and, respectively, the left seat and the right seat; while said central console, left and right seat, the two side sticks and the two members for controlling collective pitch being disposed symmetrically in the cockpit.