Help reading analog pins

the joystick is from a radio remote. it is connected to a radio receiver, which has channels 1,2,3,4 plugged into arduino's ports A0, A1, A2, A3.

Right now I am focusing on port A2. When I use pulseIn(A2,HIGH,25000) I print the values in a serial monitor. I'll paste them over here:

Throttle: 1016
Throttle: 1016
Throttle: 1012
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1041
Throttle: 1026
Throttle: 1020
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1036
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1035
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1041
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1041
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1027
Throttle: 1026
Throttle: 1024
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1027
Throttle: 1027
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1037
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1036
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1041
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1033
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1041
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1027
Throttle: 1027
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1043
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1018
Throttle: 1044
Throttle: 1018

This is WITHOUT moving the joystick. I need values to be stable...