It's great to finally see the manual. With that much info available I'm surprised that Futaba hasn't released more info to the modelling press (and their website).

I've already noticed one thing that I think could have been done better and one thing that is still causing me to hold back.

The TX has an onboard SBus Programmer but, to use it, you have to plug in a 'Y' lead with a RX battery attached (similar to when you are programming the servo via a PC). What is all that about? Why can't they supply the required power from the TX? It seems like a very poor design to me.

The show-stopper for me might not actually be anything to do with the TX but more to do with the RX. It seems that the only telemetry capable (SBus2) RX available is the R7008SB. If I am setting up a simple model like a C-ARF Flash with JR servos, it is likely that I will run out of conventional channel sockets. The only option will be to use a Powerbox, 2 RXs or decoders (or restrict myself to SBus Servos). Why would I want to do that? IMO they need to release a RX that has more conventional outputs so I don't need to add extra, unnecessary, components.