When I'm flying with my students, I am naturally flying and holding their radios while they have the "student" buddy box. Therefore I am exposed to a wide variety of stick settings both in tension and in length. I NEVER tell my students where to set there sticks but I do make sure they know that they are adjustable and how to do it. I also tell them some of the effects it MAY show them or may not. We're all different and fly different. I just try to make sure the students are comfortable as possible with the transmitter, they are nervous enough.