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I started off by selecting a Model in my JR 9303 and choosing the Heli mode. This enabled the mixing charts you see above. In the JR Radio, they are Pitch Curve and Throttle Curve. All other mixes are turned off. I setup my mixes as the above chart references for Gov Mode. Everything seemed to be working correctly, but at the extremes of throttle on both normal and Idle, the system was getting hot and I had nearly no thrust. I began scratching my head as all of my mixes were set up exactly as the above charts depicted. I took my Wattmeter and took readings. I was pulling 23 amps at full throttle range. Something was definately wrong.

I then read between the lines. This is just a starting point and the mixing will need to be fine tuned. My throttle seemed to be perfect, but it was the pitch that was out of line. Basically I had max pitch mixed in so they blades were becoming paddles giving more than 50% pitch. I really only needed about 30% pitch. So I started by decreasing my pitch until the amps came into line. I found that I went from -100% and +100% to more like -25% and +60%. This kept the pitch to a postive or negative 30% at the high end and low end of the throttle. Amps came into line at about 11.5-12 amps at either range and gave an input of about 113 watts. This is right around what I had with a standard Fixed Pitch system.

Normal and Idle up are programmed to a Switch. I have mine on my Flight Mode Switch. Flight Mode Norm or zero contains my Normal flight mixing. This simulates a fixed pitch system. Flipping the switch down to Flight Mode 2 enables the VPP mixing. Center stick has no pitch, up has positive pitch (forward flight) and down has negative pitch (backwards flight). Something to get used to is transitioning from normal flight to VPP flight. If you are in normal flight and down on the throttle and flip to Flight Mode 2, guess what is going to happen? Yep..negative pitch and your going backwards. It is best to transition from Normal Flight to VPP while at about 3/4 throttle from what I have found. In fine tuning the mixing, right around 3/4 throttle seems to be pretty even matched in Normal mode and VPP mode. This makes for a smooth transition.