Pleased to meet you Matt , thank you for the kind words. Its likely we have similar modeling experiances although I still fly a bit of U-control and still realish the 'real feeling of flying a model aircraft'

Here is a picture of a seven channel Hitec 2.4 I am installing as we type in a ninety sized Horizon Corsair. This airplane will be my latest arrested landing (tailhook lander) for a contest I am promoting for next summer.

You can easily see the boda and all that was neccessary was to simply route the leader to the rear agine to just get some distance from the engine.

Matt there is absolutely no reason fear 2.4. It actually saved our field and everyone in our medium sized club use 2.4 exclusively. This is mainly because of park flyers who now use an open spot in the desert seven tenths of a mile away and use any type of radios and care less about frequency control or sharing.

The chief thing I reccomend to anyone new to 2.4 flying glow or gas is to use only five cell (6 volt) batteries for the receiver. Also to use much larger capacitys than what we may have formerly used for our old 72 systems. For example for an airplane we used to be fine with say a 600 mah pack now I would use only one of three times that capacity. This is so easy to do its a no brainer. I no longer use 4.8 or low capacity packs on anything except in the case of some electronic ignition supplys for certain gas engines.

Also Hitec strongly hints thats for the large say ninety sized aerobats or any airplane to pull large currents with powerful servos that even with sufficient capacity is the packs with the AA sized packs should not be used but the Sub C sized packs of the same capacity or better should be used.

You have choosen a good system with the Hitec and it is now all I use. What Hitec Tx's do you have?

John