ORIGINAL: rctom


I do not use the programmer, I set it up the best that I am able with the linkage adjustments, then I use what's available on the radio to fine tune things.

I do not like to rely on electronics to correct things that I should have done right in the first place, proper mechanical setup is always the most important part.

Using the programmer can't hurt, getting the servos exactly the same is part of the mechanical setup IMHO, I just don't like the programmer because I find it cumbersome and time consuming. If you have the patience by all means make the servos match with the programmer before starting other setup. But I never found enough variance from servo to servo that I could not compensate for it in other ways.

And do not try to use the programmer to compensate for improper linkage geometry, First get the servos right, then get the linkage set up to work right, never the reverse.

Remember we are dealing with a model airplane here, not an automatic transmission. A misalignment of a couple thousandths of an inch here and there will immediately disappear in all the other mechanical flexing under flight loads. If you could get in there and start measuring everything while the plane is flying you would find all these minute adjustments changing wildly every time you move the surfaces.

TF