What is a Mode 1 vs. Mode 2 transmitter?
Mode I – Right stick horizontal is aileron, right stick vertical is throttle. Left stick vertical is elevator, left stick horizontal is rudder. Mode II – Right stick horizontal is aileron, right stick vertical is elevator. Left stick vertical is throttle, left stick horizontal is rudder. To understand why we have Mode 1, you must go back to the days of reed radios. In a reed radio you did not have a 2 axis stick or fully proportional channels. Each control had its own self centering switch that you manually pulsed to operate the control. Your two primary switches were rudder (or aileron) on the right side of the transmitter (right hand thumb operated), and elevator on the left side of the transmitter (left hand thumb operated). Looking at the right switch it moved horizontally. When you moved the switch to the left, the servo went to full left and stayed there. When you released the switch the servo returned to neutral (These were true self centering servos). To turn left at less than
