You know, I didnt think to try it as a slave to the Quatro before I removed the 72MHZ reciever from the plane.. Should have I suppose..
If Nathan uses his DX6i to buddy box with students, he has to change his radio programming for each student to exactly match their radio configuration? That's pretty freakin' outrageous!
Well the manual does state this, however when I tested the theory with my 6102 as a slave it worked fine without changing the programming, with the sole exception that the trims were way out and required matching. I will note that the 6102 had already pretty much been set up for my airplane though.
Note: just set my 6102 to my FMS mode, its backwards on the reversing of throttle and a couple others from my live plane. You DEFINATELY need to be sure you have these things set up the same, it WILL control per the slave settings with the trainer switch pulled up, (EG Throttle at idle went full when I lifted the switch)
I bench ran the system and went back and forth from Dx6i (master) in control to 6102 (slave) in control at various throttle settings and it seems good. The control surfaces worked correctly, however I didn't match back and forth as you usually don't give it to a student till its strait and level. (At least my instructors never did, I was expected to match throttle best as I could then take over flying from strait and level) Worst case you program one of each ten model slots for the systems you are training to and that way you wont need to reprogram as often.
I think next time Im out and theres other fliers there I will fly it buddy corded just to see how it works in flight. When I do I will add a report. All in all its disappointing that it wont work master to a non computer radio, but in my case I already had a computer radio set up specifically for the slave side of the trainer system, so it did not matter.