A slightly disjointed and confusing manual

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AndrewJohnHawes
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Now that I am slowly becoming more familiar with the Spirit Wave radio and W1 units, I am liking the system more and more and regaining my confidence in flying the Spirit equiped helicopters.
The very biggest issue I have had is associated with the online manuals.
Where I entirely understand that the online method has many advantages in removing printing cost, quick adaptability in updating, etc. and where I would far rather resources be spent on technical development, there have been some serious issues!
Firstly, the elements of the manuals jump around. Obviously, because of the development from individual radio manufacturers receivers being coupled to a generic fbl unit, to the stand-alone Spirit W1, the connectivity has been extremely varied and diverse with many necessary 'how to' descriptions.
I feel that this has been somewhat confusing and frustrating.
I would rather have ?10 different online manuals reflecting the slight nuances from the different radio suppliers, even though 95% of the content would be duplicated. Surely this would be one of the advantages of the online style! This way there would be some continuity in access which, for me, would have some of the characteristics of an 'old fashioned' printed manual to hold and flick through.
I find that the current approach feels a little disjointed.
Secondly, with the Spirit radio, a more in depth and basic explanation of all the current radio functions would be advantageous! Even though many users are generally familiar with most usual functionality and understand the basic principles, there are often a few little quirks of use which warrant a more pedestrian and basic explanation. This would solve many superficial misunderstandings, even though most people might find most of these unnecessary, a few would find it a godsend!
Finally, I wanted to thank Tomas and everyone at the team for an excellent radio and above all continuing to push ahead with further development, which is the most appreciated, but perhaps a more unified approach to the manual would find many supporters!
I would like to see something akin to the download style page on the Spirit System website listing the different radio manufacturers in linking the manuals and especially one, in currently complete form for the Spirit Wave radio moving forward. This would mostly involve cutting and pasting all of the basic elements with the individual discrepancies contained in each of the different versions.
Regards,
Andy
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Thank you for your thouhts. It is all very welcome.

For Wave we would like to add description for each parameter and manual directly in the radio to make it as easy as possible (without need to constantly go back and forth) - so manual with exact shortcut directly for each parameter can prasently see.

I hope this will help.
Spirit System developer
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