Fly-Sky Configuration
and Helicopter Setup Manual

Getting Started

Special Note: A new software package for the FlySky CT6-A radio has been created by Stephano Grassi named “Digital Radio” which is very easy to use and has additional functionality. All of the setting information contained in this manual can also be used with that software package. You can download the Digital Radio package from http://www.sgr.info/usbradio

Start the application, and plug your (already installed and configured USB interface) cable into the back of the transmitter. Turn on the transmitter.

There are four sections to the main screen (Fig 1).

• At the top is a graphical signal chart that represents the six signals this radio provides.

• Next section is the Software options (System Option)

• Next section is the Signal configuration section (System Setting)

• Last section is the Switch configuration settings (Switch Program)

Each of these sections and individual options will be described in detail.

Connect the Radio to the Software

Fig 2

Verify that your radio is communicating with the software.

Not Communicating	Is Communicating

Fig 3

If your radio is not communicating to the software, you need to click the Settings button in the System Option section. This will display a serial port selection dialog where you can pick the serial port your computer assigned to the USB cable. Typically this will not be the first COM port, as any other installed computer serial ports will consume COM1 and COM2. The Fly-Sky cable that comes with your radio is a USB to Serial converter. There are two models of this cable, and they are not marked. Some use the Prolific USB Chip, and the later versions use a Silicon Labs Chip.

See http://www.mycoolheli.com/t6config.html for links to the drivers.

Fig 4

If you do not know the correct serial port, try all of them until your graphic signal chart displays with bars (Fig. 4). Wiggle the control sticks on the radio to confirm the radio is communicating (Fig.3). The bars will change if communications has been established.

*Note: It is a required to click the Get User button after establishing communications with the radio. This forces the T6Config.exe software to clear its memory and read the real settings from the radio back into the software. Failure to do this may cause issues or loss of configuration information when you make changes or save the information to a file. The T6Config setup memory contains 67 bytes of binary information. The Get User button replaces the software's 67 bytes of data with what it reads from the radio. If you do not use the Get User button immediately after you begin communicating with the radio, and you make some minor change, that change along with whatever the software has in its own 67 byte package is immediately sent to the radio replacing whatever it originally had stored.

At this point, you have learned how to connect your radio to the software, and force the software to read the settings in your radio. Before moving on to the System Settings section, lets review the remaining three buttons in this section.

• Help button – typically just shows the vendor's logo and any additional information the vendor would like to display to you.

• Save button – is used to save the radio settings to a file for later use. Use this option frequently (preferably changing names incrementally) so that if you mess something up, you can reload the settings back into your radio. Note: This action saves the values currently in memory of the software not the radio itself. Before saving, it is a good practice to click the Get User button to force the radio settings back into the software before saving to a file.

  • Create a directory on your hard-drive for these setting files. Keep them in one place. If you have multiple aircraft models, then either name the files according to that model with some incrementing value or other indication as to what that file is for.

  • The dialog box allows you to select an existing file, or create a new file. The “Open” button on this dialog is used to save the file. The author of the program decided to use the “Open” terminology instead of using the typical “OK” or “SAVE“ terminology for this button.

• Open button – is used to re-load a previously saved configuration file from the hard-drive and load it into the software and radio. Note: The settings in the file are immediately passed into the radio overwriting all configuration settings.

At this point, you have learned how to save and load configuration settings from files on your hard-drive.

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