Why bother with a flight pack?
Yeah, I really dig my Polk. It did come with an RX, battery, switch, and 1 servo. (no, I've no clue why 1 servo, but that's what it came with. I assume they are trying to get people to try their servos or something).
Anyway, I really like the radio. It's big, so it feels a bit differnet in the hands, but since I use a neckstrap it didn't take much getting used to. It is a 1024 system, and I seem to have good "feel" with it.
It doesn't have the reall slick mixes of the high line JR and Futaba radios, but it does have a handful of free mixes and all the switches are totally programable, which is nice. It has the features I acutally use, expo on 3 channels, EPA, etc.
the 99 model memory and the frequency and FM shift selection is the real kicker for me though. I'm actually using a mix of positive and negitive shift RXs and I actually forget which is which, since the TX remembers that for me. In fact, I have FMA, Hitech, Futaba, JR and GWS RXs in use on this one TX.
Oh, one annoying thing, the transmitter does not remember what channel a given model is on. So, I change model numbers and change frequencies togther. It does always power up on the last used frequency though, so if you have 3 models on the same channel, all you never need to change is the model number.
The RX is cool, it's also crystal-less and can be set to any channel with a push of a button that comes on a cord for mounting where it's reachable.
The transmitter has a built in scanner to keep you from shooting someone down. I sometimes get false-positives on it at contests, where we have a very dirty RF envrionment. (up to 12 TXs going at the same, fairly close together). But it's a nice feature to have. The scanner also has a mode that allows you to scan the whole spectrum and look for interference, etc, at your field.