RealFlight G5 Manual (21MB) - Great Planes Software Support

Channel. After this is accomplished, click Channel Mapping… Follow the onscreen
instructions, making sure that you read all of the instructions in each step.
Once you have finished, it is best if you never modify the RealFlight radio program in
your transmitter again. A change in this “RFJOY” program will affect every RealFlight
aircraft flown with this transmitter. Instead, edit the Software Radio in RealFlight.
Changes to the Software Radio only affect the aircraft whose radio you have edited.
Controller Calibration-
By calibrating the R/C transmitter for use with RealFlight’s software you are, in
essence, advising RealFlight as to the minimum, maximum, and center values for each
channel on your particular radio.
To calibrate your transmitter, click the Controller menu followed by the Controller
Calibration… menu item. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the
calibration procedure.
You are now ready to fly any of the stock aircraft available in RealFlight.
Transmitter Mode: Pass Through Interface
This is the most advanced method for controlling the RealFlight aircraft. It provides
total control of an aircraft from your own radio and utilizes all of your radio’s mixing
functionality. All values received by RealFlight are passed directly to the aircraft
without modification from the RealFlight software. The disadvantage is that you will
have to create a new radio program (model memory) on your R/C transmitter for each
aircraft you want to fly with this mode. You must also set up your radio, mixes, trims,
dual rates, etc. on the transmitter for each aircraft you want to fly with this mode.
The advantage of this mode is that if you are mainly flying one or two aircraft on
RealFlight, you use your own radio program for these aircraft and have complete
control over them. It’s also a very good tool for learning to use your own R/C radio, it
forces you to set up the transmitter in the same way you would have to set it up if you
were going to control an actual R/C aircraft.
Before you use the Pass Through Interface-
IMPORTANT! Make sure that you follow the procedures for both the Controller
Calibration… AND the Channel Mapping… menu items in the previous sections
BEFORE attempting to use the Pass Through Interface. Failure to do so may result in
an aircraft that either does not perform adequately or fails to perform at all.
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