"I suppose that's true. All you have to do is plug the elevator into channel 3 and the throttle into channel 2 at the receiver end, along with modifying the sticks as you suggested. Of course, on some radios, you wouldn't have all the functions on channel three that you have on channel two (like exponential, for instance) "

i'm not sure about this, most of these should be a sofwear or firmwear upgrade, in AUS we can buy mode1 and mode2 radios no problem BUT i know with the Hitec at least the importer can mod them from one to the other.