Have a question please, when setting up a new plane to program on my radio (used Futaba T7CHP) do I center the servos on the plane first and then dial in the throws? All planes on radio memory are no longer in use so I have to name my new plane and set up new throws.
Thanks.

Yes. Get the surfaces working with the servo centered first then fine tune the throws. Try to get everything as close as you can through mechanical means if possible before dialing it in with radio programming.

For a new model you will want to make sure that your digital trims are all centered on the screen. The rudder, aileron and the elevator have what looks like a graph on the edges of the screen. Move the trim adjusters on the transmitter until the black bar is centered. Then go to your plane and set up your servo's. Plug all your servo's into your receiver and make sure they are all moving. Start installing your control rods. Get your control surfaces centered and have everything where it needs to be. You can then set your throws by adjusting your control rods on your servo arms or the control horn's on the surface. Once you have that done, you can set your end points, expo, and dual rates on your radio. Good Luck, Dave

Great, thanks for the help.

I noticed that you seem to say that your radio has programmed planes on it. if so remeber to reset each memory location to a default setting before programming or you might end up with some interesting ghosts in the machine reactions.

Yes, make sure you select "Reset" in the programming and it will set everything back to the original setting (Like they were from the factory, before you mprogrammed it to whatever your lasdt model was set to)

Absolutely. And, when setting up a new plane, you want to do several things. The first one I would think of is. as already stated, woud be resetting the radio so that everything is starting from the center, electronically.

Now it's time to set your servos. Use your receiver (there is also something called TXServo that helps, uses a computer interface to work your servos if you have one or can get one, but your transmitter/receiver pair will work just fine), just center all trim tabs.

Pick a working channel, one that centers, say the Aileron channel. Remove the linkage from the serovs in the tray. You already removed all TX trim on the aileron channel, so the stick and trim will be centered. \

Connect a servo to that channel on the RX. It will go to the center. Now, push a servo arm onto the shaft using the one servo arm that is perpendicular to the side of the servo you will be workng with. Screw it down, then remove the servo wire from the receiver aileron channel and repeat with your next servo. Once finished, you can connect all the servos to their proper channels and then go from there.

Be careful during your linkage connections not to move the servo arms. If you do, then remember that you moved them and simply turn on your transmitter/receiver pair to re-center them before doing any mechanical settings on your linkage.

CGr.

Ok, now I have all centered servos. All links are close as mechanically possible. Now all control surfaces are neutral with radio and RX on.
Now I go to "end point" adjustments?
Also, throws are given in degrees. Should I just eye ball it? Aileron and rudder is 20 degrees, Elevator is 10 degrees. Easy way to measure in inches?

Maybe this will help you to eyeball it:

Nice! Thank you.

One other question please. Once my end points are set up, is that all I need to program?