Idle Up & Futuba FF7

[lloyde]

Hi, I am running Phoenix with a Futuba FF7, am a beginner still, and can't seem to find out how to switch between flight modes, I dropped a line to Phoenix and they advised that it is already built into the TX, I had the same query with the throttle hold and discovered that switch G is the throttle hold and if you goto the TX menu, it won't allow you to assign and switches, hence my query, can anyone advise re the Idle Up switch E. Thanks in advance.

[jiberjaber]

Lloyde, you need to go in to the advanced menu, for the throttle curve, set the idle1 to 100% on each point and then scroll to the next page and change where it says INH next to IDLE1 to something else, depending on where you have the front top left switch the "something else" will either be OFF or ON.

Similar for the throttle hold, you need to set the throttle hold to something other than INH.

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Turn on the radio
Hold down the mode button for a sec or so this is the "basic" menu
Press mode again, this is the advanced menu
Select THR-CRV by rotating the dial, press the dial to select and enter that menu
It will probably say something like "TH-CRV > N(N)", use the up arrow to move to the >N(N) bit and then the dial to change the first N to a 1
Use the down arrow to scroll to each P number (they are the points on the throttle curve graph) and set them all to 100% using the dial, P5, P4, P3, P2, P1 all 100%
When you get to P1, press the down arrow again and you will see IDL1>INH and IDL2>INH. Rotate the dial to show either OFF or ON against the IDL1.
Press the end button to come out of that menu.

Throttle Hold:
Come out of the throttle menu, press the down button and you will scroll to the next page of the advanced menu items, use the dial to move down to TH-HOLD and press the dial to enter that menu.
Move the blinking cursor to where it says TH-HOLD and rotate the dial to change it from INH to OFF. If you toggle switch G it should show ON/OFF when it is not INH.

Hope that helps. I think you can use key 1 and key 2 on your sim to set idle and hold as well.