Re: Programming Ultra Stick on the Futaba 9CA TX...

I share you're need for 9CAP Stick programming assistance. I have found the manual of limited use. Threads in RCgroups are also helpful but not complete with a program that actually works. See the following for a set of instructions that I have had very limited sucess with:

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This set not only does not work, but it has flaps on a slider which I was warned that a misplaced finger could send the plane into a crash. My instructor lost his plane by putting a control surface on slider...

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I have gone through these setups from the above links and rechecked my code and its exactly as stated but only some of the surfaces move and some in the wrong direction. Servo reversing would probably correct part of this but having only one control surface move after all that programming seems a bit off target. I guess those of us that would simply like a detailed set of code with some nice info like 'this will give you crow', 'this will give you full length ailerons', and such things as alternative switch assignments does not exist, or I have not been able to find that in my weeks of searching the net. Perhaps we are asking too much? Perhaps its a corporate secret? All kidding aside, perhaps we are going to have to research more using all resources available. I have the crow and full length ailerons working (after 3 hours of hit and miss programming) but am not sure I like the switch assignments yet as I am graduating from a simple 4 channel radio and trainer to the 9CAP. If I find or figure out this thing I will surely post my results! My next resource will to find all pictures/posts of Ultra sticks on the web and email the source for guidance if they are on a 9C. By the way I am not going to use a Y harness for flaps because loosing the full length ailerons is not acceptable. I want everything out of this model that it was designed to do.

Good luck, dot

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my Ultra Stick programming for my 9C here.

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Fubar of The HillPeople

I saw a thread somewhere in the past about using "glider" mode. That is how I have my 40 setup.. It gives me crow (airbrake) inversly proportional to the throttle (handy whan I want to bail out of a botched harrier landing!!) I'll dig up my settings and post them.

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Dale Craven

Fubar, I am not sure what you are trying to say. If you were offended b

my post I did not intend to. I felt it was an informative respons giving personal experience and multiple resources for the origina poster. Some of my comments were negative yes, but its not a perfec world and I am not too timid to point out mistakes, mine or someon elses, it benefits all. If you were simply posting another resource cool but I did not see the need to repost my original long winde response.

Nuff said,

do

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| This set not only does not work, but it has flaps on a slider which I | was warned that a misplaced finger could send the plane into a crash. | My instructor lost his plane by putting a control surface on slider...

To be fair, putting a control surface on a button or knob is not inherently safer than putting them on a slider. I don't care how your transmitter is set up, a misplaced finger can always send the plane into a crash.

You may feel that flaps on a switch is safer than a slider -- and I may feel that a slider gives me added flexibility that's worth the added complexity. There's rarely any clearly right or wrong answers.

(Now if I can just find a good way to put crow mode onto a slider, so I have porportional crow mode like the gliders do ... that would be slick. Haven't quite figured that one out yet, not on a powered plane. Of course, I haven't really tried that hard either.)

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Doug McLaren

What are you talking about? I read the one post, replied to the group with the URL of where I got the info I used to program my US60 into my 9C. Sheesh. Cut back on the caffiene or something.

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Fubar of The HillPeople

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