ORIGINAL: mane3215
I thought when I get the 9303 0r 8301 that when I get them they are !QUOT!stock!QUOT! so it will fly like a stock plane until I chose that I am comfortable with programming it. Is that not the case? Do I have to program everything before I fly with it? That gets me nervous =).
JR, Airtronics, Hitec, Futaba, Polk, and most of the other computer radios work as 4 channel radios right out of the box. You don't need to program anything. The Multiplex EVOs are different. They do nothing out of the box. You have to program them to do anything, but there are very few like that.
The only thing you will probably want to find is the servo reverse, ATV/EPA and dual rate features. But even they are optional. The rest of it can be learned over a period of months or years depending on how agressive you are.