You sounded very frustrated in your last response. I apologize for giving you a face-palm moment; that was not my intent. But try to imagine our frustration in not being able to understand this programming. We are confused and frustrated as well. I'll try to explain my position a little better.

I guess this is where I'm having difficulty understanding the concepts Futaba has established for how to program the radio. Yes, I have the two controls set on separate "ports" on the radio (air brakes on 7 and tail hook on 9.) BUT, I cannot figure out a way to "set two channels to be operated by one control, the desired switch". Yes, I can set one switch so that both air brakes and tail hook are UP when the switch is UP, and both at half when the switch is in the middle, and both full when the switch is down. But that's not the way I wanted to do it. (I have since put air brakes on the right slider and the tail hook on the left dial. It works.) For a moment I thought I understood what you were talking about in functions vs. channels. But I remind you that the switch setting page cannot b accessed from the FUNCTION menu. I cannot set the switch positions for the AUX5 function. I can only assign a switch, and it will only do what you described, 'a 3-position switch, you have controls that work as "one end/middle/other end'." I cannot assign the middle position to move function AUX5 to the full position. The Switch Setting page is only accessible for program mixes, and I point out that you said "You don't need to use a mixer."

I guess the reason that you keep getting these questions is that some of us cannot seem to figure out the process to to do what I described in my first post, yet it seems we should be able to do so. I have read the entire manual more than half a dozen times, and still don't get it, and from the post by McXtreme, I am not alone.

I don't consider myself to be an idiot - I have 30 years experience in IT and a master's degree. The president of my club is a 30 year Army chopper pilot - Huey's in Vietnam to Apaches in Afghanistan. He understands complex equipment and has been flying RC for decades, yet he can't figure much of this out either. We get together and it's like a couple of monkeys trying to figure out a PC.

It would be VERY helpful to all of us if Futaba could create some videos on YouTube showing how to do these things, and clearly explain what can and cannot be done. The manuals are very hard to follow. We are not trying to exasperate you, we just want to get the most out of our equipment.