exactly, my point, at last Someone who has spotted the problem as well, and that is with out having the same equipment. Now if only someone a FMS came to the same conclusion and THE SOLUTION I would be happy, unfortunatly the UK distributor can,t understand and the FMA USA is in the wrong time zone and expensive to phone from UK.
Is there any chance that you can phone them Greg, and see what they say?
regards
Alistair

I called FMA tech service. No one answered but I left a message for them to return my call. I will let you know when I get an answer.
Greg

I got a call back from FMA and they said that for your model you set the throw to 0 in set up mode to set the auto trim to off and then exit set up and then set the throw wherever you want and the auto trim will remain off.

It's too bad that all instructors are as dilligent as the one's in your club. There are many instructors who never show up for an appointment with a student or visa versa, There are clubs that have a "training day" which means possibly three flights a week for a beginner. These conditions will lengthen the time to learn, period.

As for the Co-pilot, the first few lessons, the Co-pilot sensitivity should be set at 50%. Two reasons #1 It helps the new student from over controling the plane #2 It decreases the time to learn left / right, because he gets to fix his mistake, and not have the instructor take the plane. As the student progress, then sensitivty is reduced and he finally has to make the corrections himself. When the Co-Pilot is used in this way, it is really is a good tool. The catch is, experienced pilots have to get use to having the sticks feel different. (The sticks have to be "held" longer to turn and the plane is always nose level, even when landing) So now landing is accomplished with throttle control instead of the elevator, hmmm new concept... One more thought, the Co-Pilot does increase the amount of time the student actually flies the plane during his lesson and it DOES NOT replace the buddy box.

Any just my two cents!

Hi, I just saw this and I thought it was pretty cool, I saw it used in helicopters and since I fly a t-rex 450 I was thinking about getting one. I was new to heli's and I bought one and had it set up by a friend, after he set it up I took it and trained myself to fly it and now I have gotten pretty good at it. I am past the stage where I dont need the co-pilot to teach me how to fly, and I am not getting it so it will fly for me, I just saw it in a forum for aeiral photography, they say it works great to stabilize what ever you fly to get a still shot from your camera. I had my heli set up by a friend, but call me a noob to the electronics part because I have a question about this co-pilot. I already have a DX 7 receiver and transmitter that I use in my heli, and I hear that this co-pilot comes with a reciever. Can you plug in the co-pilot into an empty slot into the DX7 reciever, or do you have to use the the receiver that it came with. and If you can use the dx7 receiver, do they sell the co-pilot without the reciever.

thanks,
David

FMA sells one you can use with any receiver and one that includes the receiver. The one I have includes the receiver.

Well I just got done emailing the people that sell the fma-copilot and they say it does work with ccpm but it does not work with a spread spectrum radio (which I have)

I should not have said "any receiver" Thanks for the correction.