ORIGINAL: Solman
You did good explaining, but your a bit off. CP has the same throttle range, but you can program pitch curve and throttle curve depending on what you want. So basically as you increase your throttle, your pitch is changing with your throttle. When you are in 3D mode, your throttle stays really high and changes very little. 3D mode is more based on your pitch than your throttle and you typically have +/- 12 degrees of pitch. It is very difficult to pull off any aerobatics with a fixed pitch heli.
No - actually I'm not a bit off. This is the beginner forum and I intentionally gave a beginner explanation, no need to bury him in information. Simplifying the answer and leaving out info is not the same as being wrong.
You need to lighten up a bit. It's beginning to look less like you want to help people and more like you just want to impress people.
Sigh - looks like my first instinct about not posting was probably correct.