Hi Mike,

All my Hitec digitals have their dead bands set to 1 as none of my models have ganged servos. On my pattern plane I'm using the small aluminium control horns that come with the 5245MG servos on all but the rudder. They are very rigid and the linkage connection is on the second hole out from the horn mounting screw. The gimbals on my EVO seem a little flimsy i.e. flex in the stick and plastic so this is why I suspected the gimbals. I did have to adjust the elevator pot a fraction because when switching between dual rates the trim center would change. This was only an issue on the elevator.

I have an old MC2020 and I tried it on the HFP to see how it performed and found that it was worse... The gimbals on that radio are tighter and more rigid than my EVO so perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree.... lol

Cheers
Jason.