I didn't see an aileron-rudder mix on my radio. I saw a lot of other stuff. I am going to have to re-read the instruction manual again for the dx6i. Then I will try it. Thanks for the quick response.

You are right. That is why I said you have to use your user mix, or free mix, or whatever it is called on the DX6i. I believe you have one available user mix where you define what gets mixed to what.

Try

Programmable Mixing 1 and 2....................................page 70

Set at 100% and always on.

Originally Posted by john97618

I didn't see an aileron-rudder mix on my radio. I saw a lot of other stuff. I am going to have to re-read the instruction manual again for the dx6i. Then I will try it. Thanks for the quick response.

Only DX7 and up TX's have the Aileron>Rudder mix as a "canned" mix.

The DX6i needs to use Mix 1 & Mix 2.

You guys were extremely helpful. I was able to do mix1 and got the rudder and elevator on the right stick. The left stick still has rudder/throttle control but i don't really care as long as I can control yaw and pitch from the right stick. I hope my question wasn't silly but I am new to this. I haven't flown for almost 30 years. (I'm old) and decided to get back into it with electrics. Lovin it. My wife, not so much. She keeps asking where am I going to put all my planes. 4 so far. I said along side me in bed. She said try the sofa.

Glad to help but understand that your right stick is pitch and roll. On a R/E/T aircraft with high dihedral wings the right stick is still pitch and roll. Roll is induced by yaw/dihedral coupling.

If you are interested in understanding more about this, take a look here. This is the link I posted in my original message to you. You are right in that you are making YAW adjustments when you move the rudder, but that is not why you are making them when you are using the right stick.

You are new to this and I don't want you getting wrong ideas and terms stuck in your head. If you read and understand the article it will help you going forward.

> WHAT GOES ON WHICH STICK ... and Why?
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...63&postcount=6

From the article:

Depending on the design of your plane, the rudder can play different roles so
its placement can change. On dihedral or polyhedral winged planes with no
ailerons, the rudder is your primary turning surface. It provides both roll
and yaw control so it goes on the right stick for roll control, as the primary
turning surface. This stick also has pitch/elevator control.

If you think of it in this manner, there is no confusion moving back and forth
between single stick and dual stick radios. On a single stick radio, pitch
and roll are on the single stick, which usually happens to be oriented to the
right side of the radio. It doesn't matter if it is a rudder/elevator plane
or an aileron/elevator plane. Pitch and roll are on the right stick, or the
only stick. .

Originally Posted by john97618

Lovin it. My wife, not so much. She keeps asking where am I going to put all my planes. 4 so far. I said along side me in bed. She said try the sofa.

Was she referring to the planes or to you?


RD

Both I assume!

Originally Posted by IfIHadWings

Just picked up two of these Tx-R at Tower for $39 each. Giving one to my buddy so we can mess around with formation flying and dog fighting.

I bought my second one during this sale. Great little planes and will fly great low and slow which i love doing. One word of advice though. Re-glue everything before flying. The landing gear and struts will break off at the slightest provocation. Also put packing tape on all leading edges. Ok thats two words of advice. Free though so.......

Just bought a barely used one at a swap meet. No TX. Replaced the RX with a PKZ J-3 brick (thanks for 2010 notes and pictures, UNGN). Little nose heavy, otherwise ready to go when the weather cooperates.

Nose heavy is fine... It just needs more up elevator and may fly a little faster than with the Brick back a little.

Really Nose heavy likely won't be able to loop. If it can loop, your CG is good.

Well after what felt like forever we finally got a nice calm day here. I closed the shop early, grabbed the Albatross and headed out to do some flying. I finally found a place big enough and away she went. Right into a huge pine tree, just trimmed her out right into the tree. an entire field in front of me but somehow I managed to watch it fly right into the tree. Never turned away from it just kept trying to trim it as it flew into the tree. So there it sits about 30' up and its pouring rain now . So I guess Ill hold off flying until the snow melts off the clubs field. I guess this is about the stupidest thing Ive ever done as far as flying goes. Brutus.

> Getting planes out of trees
http://www.flyesl.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=239
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167396

Brutus,

We have all done it at one time or another.

Originally Posted by aeajr

> Getting planes out of trees
http://www.flyesl.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=239
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167396

Brutus,

We have all done it at one time or another.

I drove by the field this AM in the rain,its fallen into some branches and is about 20' up now. Its pretty windy today so Ill drop by on my way home tonight and check it out again. I think my buddy has one of those extension poles shown in the H.Depot link. Ill borrow it and see if its long enough. The thing that kills me about it is ,I never even flinched as it was heading into the tree,just kept trimming it out like I thought the tree was going to move out of the way or something???? DUH!! I just finished detailing it too. Brutus