For both measurements first make sure that the main blades are at 0 degrees pitch, should be about mid stick on your collective, but use a pitch gauge to check it. (Keep the pitch gauge on the main blades to take the measurements).
Aileron: (Roll) position the main blades parallel with the fuselage and boom. Simply hold your cyclic stick to the right take a measurement from the pitch gauge, then do the same for the left side. You do not have to do both sides but I do just to confirm the pervious measurement.
Elevator: (fore and aft cyclic) position the main blades perpendicular with the fuselage (paddles should be parallel with the fuselage). Make sure the main blades are still at 0 degrees on the collective. Then simply hold your cyclic stick full forward or backward and read the measurement off the pitch gauge
setup for elevator
Measure by making sure the top of the gauge lines up with the flybar. This is where mine comes out at on a TREX 600E.
Beginners should shoot for 5-6 degrees and more advanced pilots should try to get as much as they can without binding the swash (binding usually occurs in the corners of the cyclic in out)
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