Help only 2 channels of ESKY 0404 transmitter work with FMS

[bambiroger]

Help please for a beginner with FMS, absolutely stuck. Running windows XP with SP2. ESKY 0404 transmitter and FMS V.2.0 Alpha 8.3 as supplied on CD provided with my Lama V3. Also supplied a connector from rear of transmitter (presumably RS232 ?) to USB at the other end; the USB end clearly has logic in it which is presumably RS232 serial to USB conversion ? No setup documentation at all for the FMS. When I select [Controls] [Analogue control...] [Joystick interface] [Mapping/Calibration] the left 2 channels respond to the forward and backward movement of the left and right joysticks on the transmitter. But left/right movement does nothing. I wasn't very surprised over this as a joystick normally has only 2 axes. So I then chose, for the interface, [Serial PIC interface] which looked hopeful. But then when in [Mapping/calibration] movement of either of the transmitter joysticks in any direction produced no movement whatever of the calibration bars. Also, when in the [Joystick] mode, although channel 1 and 2 bars moved, this had no effect whatsoever on the model on the screen.

In the absence of any literature (perhaps somebody could point me to some) I guess that the INV box against each channel indicates INVERT, namely reverse the control direction. But what does an EXP check-box do.

I am puzzled by the channel mapping titles. The first 4 entries are quite clear, Rudder, Elevator, Aileron, Throttle. So why are these apparently repeated, albeit in different terms, for the second 4 entries, Tail, Nick, Roll, Pitch; and what on earth does Nick indicate; some sort of translation funny perhaps ?

Finally, if I can get the other 2 controls directions working, how does one know how to map a particular channel to a particular helicopter control; just by trial and error or . . ?

I doubt if anything is wrong with the transmitter as it works well with the model.

Many questions but I would be most grateful if somebody could spare the time to assist.

Roger

[agstony]

HI take the third battery out of your controller and you should see two small white dip switches poke a small screw driver in the gop and move them both to the opposite direction, put battery in turn on tx and connect trainer lead. Go into fms and addjust channels as follows

rudder 4
elevator 2
ailerons 1 inv
throttle 3
tail 4 inv
nick 2
roll 1 inv
pitch 3


The first four are for planes and the second four for helicopters in the same order