Yeah, no brakes for 3-D, they use it in sailplanes so the prop will stop and fold up, and sometimes it can be uses to stop a non folding prop to creat drag and slow down, 3-D planes slow down plenty quick(not fast to begin with)I'd say like a foam brick when the power is cut,(foam bricks may not go real far but they dont smash hard to the ground either). as for elaborating on the tones, it has two beeps for flight mode, and some other sequence for the programming, What esc is it, I just asumed a bl-8 from great planes. until i know that, you can try this, you need to start with the throttle stick at minimum, and turn it on if it does nothing unplug it and then reverse the throttle channel and try again, if not a bl-8 try starting like that, then go to full throttle and back, some have that safety on them, if it is a bl-8 follow the instructions to program they are step by step but read through them complete before you start. leave the prop off when setting up in case you dont have it that way right now, dont need any accidents. to acces the bl-8 programing you put it to full throttle then plug the battery in, this accesses the program mode. Then it will automaticly step through the different things that can be programed. When it gets to what you wanna change and it gets to the correct setting in that step pull the stick back to zero throttle, this saves the setting, then you unplug and repeat until its how you want, the only thing I had to change was the timing i believe, it tells you the settings and where the factory defaults are, only thing i did was change the timing, and make sure it was set to my battery type, i think its set on 3 cell li-po to start with.