Every major brand radio is infinitely better than those 20 and 30 years ago, but we flew fine back then. Lot;s of radio problems but no internet to whine on....we just kept trying and flying.

Most all the 2.4 radios at my field are Spektrum and I have never seen a plane or heli crash at my field due to the radio. One guy did use a park flyer transmitter on a regular RC plane and of course, it lost range quick and flew away. Would that go in the equipment failure column?

Several of us fly Airtronics and the fewest fly Futaba 2.4. We are next to an Army base and again, no radio problems. Some people try to blame the radio for a crash, but usually, some other reason is the cause, such as forgetting to charge the battery, etc. The Spektrum radio has a model match function....I don;t think anyone else has that. We have had several crashes with the TX set to the wrong airplane....the downfall of computer radios...and is something that could not happen to Spektrum.

Someone above said that DSM2 will be abandoned for another technology in the future, but in another forum, someone produced a letter from JR, I think, that DSM2 is not going to be replaced. So believe what you want about any of this. I just do not see planes raining out of the sky and I doubt others really see that either.


bob