RE: Initial pitch range question
To be honest it's going to be difficult to tell by quoting numbers. When I started out I was using a Hitec Optic6 Tx and when I got my Futaba 9CH I just copied the curves over to the new radio and NOTHING was the same! I still have a tad more +collective than neg but have found that the following is roughly good...
NORMAL: Pitch 40,50,60,70,85
Throt 0,40,55,75,100
Idle 1: Pitch 25,45,55,70,90
Throt 100,75,55,75,100
Idle 2: Pitch 0,25,50,75,100
Throt 100,75,55,75,100
As I mentioned, these are just more or less the thing to start with and I found that the Hover-Throttle and Hover-Pitch trim tabs come in very handy to fine tune the thing to get just the right head speed, you dont want to overspeed the thing but if too low it will get the wobbles and not look very stable, so just ramp up the throttle curve a bit at a time and you will soon have it sorted.