ORIGINAL: draymun
Last thought...i've received all my heli's except HB2 with the TX set up in some weird format i call "Mode X". Throttle and left/right cyclic on left stick, Tail and forward/backwards cyclic on right stick....It's easy enough to fix but what in the world were they thinking?
For Colco, i just swapped the pots, for the Walkera's i just swapped the 2 inside connectors.
Yeah. It's called Mode 1, and it's used in Europe and Asia/Pacific (ie here). When I visited the Auckland nitro club they we're all trying to make me fly mode 1, but mode 2 makes more sense to me in that I think that the axies are naturally grouped together that way in my brain.
Anyway, just an FYI the arguments from the guy instructing me are:
1) People learning using mode 2 often have trouble accidentally mixing fore/aft cyclic with left/right cyclic or vice versa.
2) If you've flown planes then mode 1 is more how most planes are set up: throttle/aileron, elevator/rudder.
So anyway, after spending maybe an hour in the air with the instructor I now seem to be able to fly mode 1 _and_ mode two, although I prefer mode 2 on my heli's.