helicopter

Raymond generally you will need a 5 channel radio

tail rotor - rudder pitch - elevator roll - aileron collective and throtle - mixed to the throtle

Ed

Raym> Trying to figure out stick assignment

You want the right stick to control the rotor plane of rotation (disk), when the stickmoves forward, the rotor disk should tilt towards the front. To accomplish this you need to take gyroscopic precession into account, which means that you have to push up 90 degrees before the aft portion of the rotor disk to get it to tilt down in the front (at least that is how the full sized ones work).

The rudder is a logical choice for the tail rotor, throttle for throttle. You will want another channel for the collective if you want to fly it like a real heli. You could get it off the ground with a fixed amount of collective however and a 4 channel radio, and hope the engine don't quit (you need collective control to autorotate, that is to store a bunch of energy in the rotor disk and use that energy to slow/stop your descent at the last moment).

Next time you need to specify that you're talking about FMS. Since you've made it to that screen, you can see that when you wiggle the sticks that the calibration bars move in response to the channels you wiggle. If not, you either have the wrong interface selected (serial, parallel, etc.) or a bad connection. Set an airplane model up first, the first four boxes marked Rudder elevator throttle aileron. Since some radios are different and you haven't given any info, do this: Move the elevator stick up and down, and watch the bar that responds to it. Make sure that channel is the one that controls elevator on the left side. IOW, if moving the elevator stick up and down makes bar 2 move up and down, make sure that the number 2 is next to elevator in the left column. Change if necessary, and repeat for the other channels. Now, try and fly a plane. If any channel is acting backwards, go back to that screen and check the "INV" box on the channel(s) that was backwards. Now that you've got the plane set up, copy those assignments to the last four items in the column (tail, nick, roll, pitch). Copy rudder to tail, elevator to nick, ail to roll, and throttle to pitch. The assignments should be correct. There is no throttle, just use your throttle stick for collective. The same inv assignments to heli as the plane. On a futaba or hitec, rudder is 4, elev