ORIGINAL: gphil
Still trying to get a real controled landing in. Beginning to think the trim may be a factor. The flight controls seem well but the throttle trim may too low. Right now there is no such thing as a power off, dead stick , approach. If you throttle back to ''o'' uncontrollable crash happens. going to add a little higher idle and see what happens. Question, what does the switch on top left of controller do? I think it is control response maybe. The one on the right side operates flaps and gear. But as of right now, no way to line up on final high or low. Just will not happen. Gonna give it a week then who knows. This unit will allow me to see a second plane in flight and the controller. I do much better watching the little plane. Oh well . gphil
As a beginner with a trainer, you want all flight activity on low rates until you learn what amount of input gives you what kind of response. You don't want to be spending your time fighting with over control.
If you want to know what things do, just taxi the plane so that it is "in front of you", set the throttle at minimum (and leave it there for this test) then move the sticks. You can see all control surfaces move as you move the sticks.
Then move the sticks and switch the switches. To see what one is dual rate, just push the aileron to full right or full left, then flip switches. One of them will make the aileron move either more or less, depending on where it is set at. Once you learn what switch it is, and what position the low rate is, then leave it there. The same switch controls both the aileron, elevator, and rudder.
CGr