RE: TX Setup Help
 

I still have the book that it came with, in there are some cool diagrams that show the function of every thing, there are a lot of buttons and switches! The jist is the stick is a standard gymbol with a 3rd channel in the mid. you just twist it for tail rotor and aileron and elevator are norm. on the side are pitch and throttle sliders and switches for mix, throttle hold, invert and all the other stuff. I will scan a pict from the book and snap a shot of my radio so i can put it on my page for you to see.

RE: TX Setup Help
 

Love to see this, sounds very interesting.
Dave / Choppersrule

RE: TX Setup Help
 

Didn't Curtis fly with a single stick for a while?

Here's a modified 8U to single stick (from RadioSouth webiste): the rudder was a twist knob on the cyclic stick ... so all of your "surface" controls were on one hand. The left hand controlled just the collective (throttle/pitch).

I think Kraft made some production single stick radios.

http://www.radiosouthrc.com/8U_single_stick_side.JPG

RE: TX Setup Help
 

That is pretty cool! Do they still make those? When did they bring in double sticks and stop making those?

RE: TX Setup Help
 

You can still get them and thay have allways made both kinds, just like the mode 1-2 thing it is all in what you want to fly. The JR i've been useing is very much like that i also have the Futaba PCM 8 (like the one in the pict.) which i like a little more than the JR becuse you can adjust the sticks position reletive to the box (you can turn it so it is offset and not square to the case) Makes it nice if you hold it at an angle like i do.

RE: TX Setup Help
 

I leanrt to fly fixed wing in NZ Mode 1. When I learnt helis, I swapped my old Tx to mode 2.

Now many years later getting back into the hobby, I bought a heli and mode 2 Tx. I now fly both planes and helis Mode 2.

I do wonder if mode 1 may be more accurate to fly, as doing an aileron roll its very easy to input elevator controls i didnt want when flying mode 2.

Fact is I prefer mode 2 for both Helis and planes. It resembles the joystick controls of full sized aircraft more.

I guess the time off in between made it easy to change from mode 1 to mode 2.