Subj : New hobby
To   : Pistolgrip
From : Amcleod
Date : Tue Jan 09 2001 10:31 pm

RE: New hobby
BY: Pistolgrip to Digital Man on Tue Jan 09 2001 10:49 pm

 >  > Make sure it supports mixing channels 1 and 2, and a single stick is the 
 > 
 > Yeah, I think it supports mixing on al 4 channels, but I need to dig it out 
 > check.  It is a 2 stick model though, serious problem you think?  I'm used t
 > one stick for throttle and one for flight controls.

If you have an old four-channel radio, then you should be able to mix the
aileron/elevator controls on the right-hand stick and use the left stick for
throttle, and ignore the fourth channel on the left stick.  Or if flying an
unpowered (3C?) ignore channels 3, 4 and do the elevon mixing on the right
stick on ch. 1, 2.

What you _don't_ want is an old 2-ch radio with one stick left/right only for
"rudder" and the other fore/aft for "elevator".  The Hitec radio shown on the
Zagi site is a 3-ch radio but channels 1, 2 on a single stick rather than two
separate sticks like some other 2 or 3-ch radios.  I'm not sure how you control
ch-3 on the Hitec though.  It's supposed to be fully proportional, but the
picky is too small to see if there is a separate slider or what for the
throttle.

I hope to be meeting eith the head honcho at the local aero-modellers club
today.  <sigh>  Beureaucracy makes life so much harder!

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