The best pleasures in life turn out to be the simple pleasures.

Surely with you having to spend your work days picking out the correct bits from sum-difference resolver outputs to use in servo motor controllers or following shift register bits across a half dozen registers by trial and error is much more sophisticated than just setting up an analog servo on the extra motel room bed using your transmitter in the middle of the night?

The two things you are interested in are the servo center and travel limit. Flick on the radio with the transmitter trims centered for a sec and it centers the servos. If you accidentally move a servo output spindle, center it again. I mechanically set up the actual travel limits of the flying controls themselves utilizing the standard limits of the servos.

It's like running electrical conduit, there are only two types of bends to make and they are a "stub out" and an "offset". Anything else is just combination of these two.

Then if I have a computer transmitter, I set up the low rates, exponential, and other programming in the transmitter.