So, just yesterday, I received a P-51 "Ferocious Frankie" in the mail from Motion RC. I also got a Spektrum DX5 transmitter / radio and an AR 400 receiver from the recommendations list on the P-51 page at the Motion RC website. Then I get to work. Eventually, I finish all the mechanical things (push-rods, gluing elevators, installing fixed landing gear, etc..), get all the correct servos plugged into the correct ports on the receiver, and start the binding process. I plug the Bind Plug into the BND/DAT port on the receiver. This is where the problem comes in. The receiver is blinking orange, I hold the trainer rod on the transmitter while I turn the thing, and the receiver stops blinking, then starts, then stops again. I let go of the trainer rod and the transmitter plays a little fancy tune. I then try moving the joysticks around and nothing happens.

What am I doing wrong? Am I forgetting something critical? Do I have faulty parts? What's going on?

This problem has been plaguing me for the past day and a quarter or so and it's quite annoying when it doesn't work how videos and manuals say it should work.

Any help or direction is appreciated.

Edit: Thanks everybody for your help! I finally got it working by moving it a little farther away from the receiver.