so sensitive these Spektrum boys...

The guy I was going to buy a DX7 from demo'd the radio with a Fox glider. Wonderful I thought the radio has so many features.
Then came the inevitable "errr Hold on I think somethings wrong..." the glider simply flew away never to be seen again. Prop turning so the battery was not at fault.

User number two was flying his Stik, 2nd flight of the day, 6V high capacity battery with the Rx mounted far away from the engine, satellite receiver in the tail. take off, bank right keep banking right level wings planes heads skyward, snap wings wiggle, engine throttles up, full power in the lake. He was holding the radio above his head at this time to indicate he had a problem. no movement on the sticks, plane had a mind of its own. Servo failure? I doubt it.

this is jsut two incidents. There is one spot at our airfield where all the Spektrum users seem to have an issue. To date only one plane has crshed due to it but they all avoid that spot like the plague, 2.4 users that is. Someof the other DSSS types also have an issue there yet the FHSS types don't. Now that airfield has a mobile phone network pylon close by as well as high power electricity transmission lines. Most FM folk don't have an issue, most FHSS folk don't, but most DSSS folk do. Are they all a bunch of ham fisted muppets? Why is it after wo blokes changed radio's they could fly straight throught the area's they could not fly through with DSSS?

Of course you can't answer the question but you can tow the corporate line of "there is no problem but the user."
Having seen these issues I have no appetite for a system that inexplicably has problems while the whole distribution network uses damag control.
The mere fact that one party of the DSM2 crowd has another system and is introducing a proper Constantly agile DSSS system tells me that even they dont have faith in DSM2.

Having flown a few newbies lanes equiped with that system I can feel when it no longer has a hold on the plane and it happens often. Where other planes on Fm or FHSS simply feel connected the DSM2 stuff just feels loose as if the plane is a step or two behind you. I could never recommend a system to a newbie that I don't feel confident in. I don't know the answer to the DSM2 issues either and yes there are folk who don't have an issue at all but I wonder if they know when there is an issue.

Lastly if a system is known to be voltage sensitive how can be defended as not having a problem?

Futaba, Hitec, Multiplex, Jr DSMJ ( feels far more solid than DSM2 but still not as good as FHSS) these are far better than DSM2 IMO.
How can I say DSM2 is rubbish? I have tried it. I don't have to own something to have a bad feeling about it. Do youhave to get married to find out if the cheerleader is money grabbing dumb blonde?</p>