Mode One, Two, Three and Four By James Goss     I have known about mode one and mode two for many years, but it was only this month that I came across mode three and four. Of course we all fly with our transmitters set up for mode two. Mode two has your throttle and rudder on the left stick and elevator and ailerons on the right stick. We have all learned to fly with this set up and it would be really hard to change. Mode one has the rudder and elevator on the left stick and the throttle and ailerons on the right stick. I do see some advantages for mode one over mode two. While flying mode two, it is hard to move the elevator stick without moving the ailerons just a little. And likewise, it is hard to move the aileron stick without moving the elevator axis a little. Using mode one prevents this aileron and elevator coupling by physically separating the two. This could be just what you need to stabilize your airplane.   I may have heard of mode three and mode four, but I can't remember if I did. In the April edition of Model Aviation, mode three and four was mentioned. Mode three is the left-handed mode one, and mode four is the left-handed mode two. Now lets see if we can figure this out. If we take a mode one transmitter and move the stick on the left to the right side of the transmitter and move the right stick to the left side of the transmitter, I think we will have it. The throttle and ailerons are now on the left stick and the rudder and elevator are on the right stick. Oh! I see now, this is the way I have been flying my Spinsation for the last year and didn't even realize it until I wrote this article.       If mode four is the left handed version of mode two, then this would mean that the ailerons and elevator is on the left stick and the rudder and throttle are on the right stick. How can even a left-handed person fly this way? I predict that nobody can fly mode one, three or four and really understand what they are doing. All I can figure is that it must be pure luck!!!      It would also be correct to say that mode one is the right-handed version of mode three, and mode two is the right-handed version of mode four. Not very many flyers in the US will fly any mode other than mode two, but they are some that are using these weird modes and have good success with them. So the next time you see me flying and it looks like I am holding my transmitter upside down, I am only experimenting with modes five and six, which is the easy way to convert to modes three and four. Good luck with your modes.