I've owned Futaba and Airtronics over the years and both have been great for me so I'm not going to get into that "Ford vs Chevy" argument. Go to your hobby shop and try them out and see which fits you and is easiest for you to program and is comfortable. Lately, I've been using Airtronics RDS8000 and little older VG6000. I love both and they are easy and intuitive to program for me and I've never had a problem. I guess the other brands like JR are Spectrum are great, but I never owned one to know what they're like.