I set my dad's cub up the same way, evan set up his giles 202..

everything was matched with my programmer (hitec) and I used simple y's everywhere.. the only thing different was I used lipo's instead of nimhs

worked great for me and I have never seen a glitch in the system yet

and its a cub so you wont be working the servo's to the max unless you fly it like hempel does

and yes a powerbox or smart would be nice but not needed they make set-up a breeze.. I run the powerbox champion and setup is super quick

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