Hi, Im very new to RC airplanes. In fact Ive never flown one, and Im just starting to use a simulator (since I was told it is best to first learn on a sim). So this may sound like a very foolish question to some of you pros but it is bothering me .. My question is about the orientation of the controller.

In the sim configuration, I can specify if I want to reverse the controls or not. For example, the right stick (the one that controls the elevators for pitch if you move it up-down) - I can set it so that moving the stick down pitches the plane nose upwards, or I can reverse the configuration so that moving the stick down pitches the plane nose downwards.

My question is which one to choose. I have never flown an RC plane before so I don't know which convention most controllers for an RC plane use. I don't want to learn to fly on the sim using a convention which is the opposite of most RC plane controllers out there. Do the controllers that come with a new RC plane allow you to reverse the orientation if you choose?

And ofcourse the question is not limited to the elevator alone. The right stick also moves left and right to control the aelerons, and I have just assumed that moving the stick left should make the plane turn left. Is this also the correct convention?

Same goes for rudder...

Any information you guys can provide would be most helpful. Feel free to link me to a page showing the regular convention if you know of one.

Thanks