ORIGINAL: BelAirBob
If I remember, last year it was Spektrums that supposedly had problems at Joe Nall and this year it was Futaba....remember the jet crash?
For the record, here are the facts from Joe Nall:
There were 2 instances at the Nall that involved Futaba equipment.One was David Shulman, who flew a long way out with his jet and had the receiver mounted under "mirrored" plexiglass. We replicated it here and proved that it would block the signal. David admitted that he thought it was the problem too. The other was Eric Karl, who's module connection (from taking the module in and out) came loose and the transmitter gave the beep of death. Those are the only 2 that I know of, and they're not radio reliability problems.
This is a personal communication to me from a person who was there and has personal knowledge of the two incidents. So those are the facts.