Well I persisted and finally got a setup on my 9C I think will work ok.

I left the TX in glider2 setup, with 6 individually controlled servos plus ESC. Since my 2 and 4 servos will connect to the OSD, I can use one of those slots on the RX to run power from the BEC. That still leaves me with one extra channel (8) on PPM, that can be used for a pan servo. I left the butterfly mix on the left stick, and assigned the throttle to the D slider (left slider). The 9th RX channel is PPM out to the OSD.

For mixes, I went with

Thermal Setup (slight flap droop, tiny bit of elev down)
Start (takeoff under power) Setup (flaps and ails full down, elev partial down)
Power-elev mix (elev slight down as full power comes on)
Elev-> flap mix (partial flaps down as elevator is raised)
Butterfly (flaps full down, ails full up, elev partial down)


I didn't use the "speed" mix for it's intended use in the setup as I am FPVing and will be flying endurance not speed. I put the thermal mix on that function. The thermal and startup offsets are on a 3 way switch with neutral in the middle.

There was only one thing that I still couldn't figure out. My Cularis manual refers to a travel setting of aileron up travel (10mm) which they call "Flap". In addition, they spec 20mm up, 10mm down for the ails. Not sure what they are referring to here ... they have a separate list of travel throws under the heading "Flaps" (speed up 3mm, thermic down 4mm). When would you want both your ails up 10mm? (Other than butterfly which they spec separately as ails up 15mm, flaps down 30mm, ele down 8mm).

Hoping this will suffice. We will see.

Thanks to all for input. From the reading I did, for the benefit of the next guy going down this learning curve, you have to choose aerobatic setup to have a traditional throttle on the left stick. You can't do some of the glider stuff (eg thermal trim) under that setup but that's not essential.