WOW, only on DMS2 huh. Maybe you mean DSM2? You're right, I'd have to see it to believe it and if I lived in Wisconsin I'd surely come by and fly with you for a while. I've flown DSM2 for more than 3 years now and have done so all over the Houston area as we have a great many AMA sanctioned fields here. Being a very large city there is quite a bit of radio noise at most of the fields so some folks have a tough time especially on 72 mHz. I've never had the first hit on 2.4 at any of these fields nor have I had any problems in San Antonio, Austin, nor Beaumont/Port Author. In fact now that I have my new DX8 I can literally see the radio link quality in real time on the ground and set an alarm to alert me if it degrades below an acceptable level. (The alarm has never sounded nor even come close to sounding) I can also set an alarm to sound if my ignition pack or my flight pack get below an acceptable voltage level. (Excellent safety feature IMHO)

One thing I've learned in the 40 years I've been flying is most every brand of radio of radio control equipment sold has the potential to give problems and also from that same experience, I don't see that much difference in the reliability factor. I started on an EK Logictrol "Digital Proportional" (New term back then) system in the early seventies and have used most every major brand (including but not limited to Futaba, Airtronics, JR, and Spektrum) since that time having very good success with all of them. Each has their strength and weaknesses and there is most certainly some amount of personal preference with the various menu systems. I personally prefer the menu system of Futaba but I've had more failures with them than the other big three combined. (three) Considering how long I've been flying three failures is certainly an excellent record and I will not hesitate to fly with Futaba. I would be flying their equipment today if they had telemetry available in their systems.

On a side note, at the Houston Huckfest this past weekend, it was interesting to see that each different make was well represented and each performed admirably. There were 10,000+ dollar planes out there and almost all were being flown on 2.4 systems. To the best of my limited knowledge there were no crashes due to radio system failure. (Although there were a couple of "dumb thumbs")