Greetings all,
My first post, and I hope it's helpful to some. I have been reading and studying on another helicopter forum in the UK that has been very helpful in sorting some things out with my own Honey Bee King 2. I recently acquired the Esky EK2-0900A USB cable for my stock transmitter and found the information as to how to correctly set up for use with this cable. This information will work with Windows 2000 Pro and perhaps XP. Don't know about Vista. Part of this information is from another newbie pilot and it helped me complete the setup to use the latest version of FMS with a collective pitch heli and my stock tx.
1. Remove the third battery from the left in your transmitter. Inside the transmitter, you will see two dip switches on a red switch block.
2. Using a small screwdriver, flip the positions of the switches. Standard setup for flying with a left hand stick=pitch transmitter is
1=Down, 2=Up. To use FMS, reverse the positions so that
1=Up, 2=Down.
3. Re-insert your transmitter batteries.
4. Remove your transmitter crystal.
5. Plug your transmitter USB cable into your PC.
6. Turn transmitter on.
7. Start FMS
8. In the Controls > Analog Control section, choose the Joystick setup option and set your controls as follows:
Tail = 5 and check the INV option
Nick = 2
Roll = 1 and check the INV option
Pitch = 3
9. Follow the Calibrate procdure with the model of your choice. I have been flying the Blade CP model as it seems to simulate the Honey Bee King 2 flight characteristics quite well.
10. After calibration, center all your trims except your pitch trim which should be fully down.
11. My experience so far has been that every thing works on my tx except the head lock mode on my gyro switch. Idle up, HOV PIT, and trims all work like in the real world on my setup.
12. When getting ready to use your tx for flying, remember to reset the dip switches to the original setting.
Fly=
1-Down, 2-Up
Sim=
1-Up, 2-Down
Oh, and
don't forget to replace your crystal!
Happy flying and simming. Hope this helps. And thanks to Chris for helping get me started on finding the solution.
--mobius