Hey Butch,

I took delivery yesterday. I was a bit underwhelmed by HeliFactory's output. Sandy is working very closely with me to fix things, but they unplugged every receiver lead and didn't label anything. The mdl file they sent for the 14Mz has a mucked up pitch curve so I don't trust anything else in the program.

I'm taking the ship to a local guy today to do a bit of paint touchup around the windows. Joe Howard's painting is superior to these guys' work but it's not bad. Overall I was frustrated when I opened the crate to find no cradle and the ship just sitting in loose fill!! Absolutely moronic.

I'll have more detail later, but I'm now trying to learn the HeliCommand from the ground up. Joe installed it in my Agusta and I intend to learn it top to bottom so I can set my S-76 up the way I want. The thing I'm wrestling with now is whether to have a "pilot" channel that allows me to turn it off or reduce the gain from the transmitter. I also want to understand the best way to work with trims. So if the heli drifts forward and to the right, do I move the sub-trims to keep the trims at 0 or do I have to go into the software?

MK