[LASS Soaring] "Programming your 9303, do it with your plane on!"

[GordySoar at aol.com]

Hi guys,
 
Steve's posting about how to program which switch for what mode was  
excellent!

Why?  Well because it showed how important it is to sit down, your  sailplane 
in your Plane Perch in the garage, all by yourself, no music, no tv,  the 
cone of silence down over the both of you! :-)
 
Then open up the main program and .....START.
 
Don't have the book open, don't ask anyone any questions - man up!   Show the 
world that you don't need anyone to guide you like some little boy thru  a 
department store (or like a grown man thru a grocery store when the wife sends  
you for bullion cubes or some such:-)
 
Why?  Because its the only way you will be independent, the only way  you 
will be able to move to the next level of understanding....by 'working' thru  it 
yourself.  AND the only way anyone would have understood what Marc  posted:
Steve, it is on all the time.  The other switches you  change gets you to the 
other modes, but landing is on all the time.
 
Quit looking for shortcuts and 'help', its killing you guys and  cheating you 
out of moving to the next level of fun in our hobby.
 
Had Steve had his plane on, followed the JW instruction, he'd  have stumbled 
across the answer to his own question. That there is no need  for a way to 
turn on the Launch function (the 8103 if programmed wrong made you  flip a switch 
to toggle between using the throttle stick for camber or launch,  craziest 
and most dangerous thing I think I'd seen on a radio, at least  dangerous to 
task points:-).

But the 9303 isn't your dad's Oldsmobile, some crazy  brilliant person 
actually sat down with a sailplane turned on and thought about  that kind of thing, 
so it doesn't happen any more (well you can force it to if  you wanted the new 
radio to be as goofy as the old one :-)
 
Read Sherman's article AFTER you have figured out how to set  your radio up 
by doing it, AFTER you set up a program for a full house  ship.  That way when 
you read it, it will mean something. That way you will  be able to chose what 
to use or not use.
 
Again IF you are the kind of person who HAS to follow signs,  black out the 
labels on your TX that say things like Launch, ELE Dual Rate,  Speed, Cruise, 
Thermal, Land.  Other wise they will drive you nuts during  programming for TD 
set ups.
 
First time programming will be frustrating, annoying, time  consuming (yep it 
will take about 15mins the first time you try it, IF you do it  menu 
selection by menu selection, one after the other as they are shown on the  screen) and 
FUN, but mostly satisfying after you have done it  yourself.
 
Okay here's an assignment, sit down with any of your full house  ships, start 
a new program, have JW's set up instruction printed out, start in  the main 
menu, go thru each selection in the order they are shown, when you get  to the 
name part call it "Real Man's Set Up" or Basic :-)

In the Device select chose JW's assignments, which only  apply to the first 
two choices, Speed and Launch.
Then go to the sub menu with Reverse, Dual rates etc.  When  you get to the 
Dual rates part, that's where you get to move the cursor  to find the secret 
sub sub menu choices on the Right side of the screen!
.............
Oops! Got to get to beach!  More  later
Gordy
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