"Thank you, Michael! That was most useful. I will get a https://store.3drobotics.com/products/rtf-flysky-fs-th9x-rc instead and that will take care of the encoder challenge."

"Thank you for the question and replies. Forgive my frustration (similar to Justin Ferro-Sonic), but did you mean you bought https://store.3drobotics.com/products/ppm-encoder for this? Did you need additional cables or anything else?Thank you!"