So I finally brought home the Wilga that I bought back in December 2022. I ended up with a plane that's not tandem but it does have the controls on the left side of the fuselage, so I fly with my right hand and throttle with the left, so it has the main thing I like about flying tandems. Instead of completely hijacking this thread I made a new one here

https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/my-p ... -540-26702