Ok, I'm going to get a buddy cord so my dad dont plant another plane without me at least having a chance to save it. I have a Futaba 6exp, and he has a Hitec Laser. My question is once I hook them up and have my transmitter turned on trainer mode, How does it work? Does my transmitter need to be on being its not on the same channel as his. What transmitter needs to be on. I think mine would have to be on being it has the switch to give him control. Can someone please help me I just cant get my mind to under stand how this works. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure that you can't use the Hitec as a buddy box for the Futaba. You'll need to have another Futaba as the buddy box.

But once you get the correct buddy box it works like this. The master radio is turned on and the buddy box is left off. You will have control of the aircraft until you use the training switch. Once you use that the buddy box will have control until you release the training switch

Ken

We used a Hitec Flash 5X as master with a Futaba 6XAS as student.
We did have to buy the Hitec "one way" trainer cord http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXN740&P=0
The Hitec master was turned on, the Futaba student was not turned on.

< edit > I'm re-reading your post and Ken's reply.

Which transmitter is controlling the plane? Hitec? Futaba?

No matter what, only the transmitter that is controlling the plane should be turned on.

Carrell,
I stand corrected. I wasn't sure if you could use the Hitec with the Futaba. Thanks for setting me straight.

Ken

One of the first things I bought when I got into this hobby was a buddy box. I keep it ready to go with my trainer in case I have a friend who wants to go fly with me. Mine is a stripped down Futaba Skysport 4 channel with the old round plug. When I upgraded to a newer Futaba Compuer radio I just got the adapter cable from Tower. You may want to consider just buying a buddy box set-up of your own. You may be surprised how much you use it. Mine has alot of miles on it over the past 13 years but it still works like a champ. And it is still compatible with the new computer radios.

One word of warning on using the Futaba box as the master. You may have to select the trainer option electronically EVERY TIME you select the trainer plane.

Ok, His Laser will be that main transmitter for that plane. but it does'nt have a trainer switch. Do I need to set the receiver to work off my transmitter being it has the switch? I have an old futaba skysport transmitter laying around that we can use for the second.

Yup.

That's weird. I have a Laser 4 and it has a trainer switch. This picture, from the Hitec site, looks exactly like my transmitter. If his is different you will need to change the crystal in his receiver to match your transmitter and use ity as the master.

you know I dont remember seeing that switch on his but it might be there,

I know with the futaba radio only setup that the master powers both the master and the buddy. it is possible that with the mixed setup that you might have to power up the buddy box, if this is so then remove the crystal from the buddy so that it does not put out any radio signal