Well I use a Futaba 7CHP and I use one of the models for the sim, but I use none of the computer stuff in the radio as it only seemed to mess things up. If I remember right I needed to change some settings in the program when I started to use the 7CHP radio to get it to work properly. Did you go through the calabration setup? If I remember I needed to link the cyclic to the throttel channel in the controller setup, but it worked just fine on the other Futaba radio I was using before. There is also an update to version 1.05, but it is a beta version and I only needed it to be able to fly one of the other new helis that was listed for down load.