Thanks for all the great advice guys. I emailed all the clubs in my area. There are 3 clubs I know of in my area and 2 have responded saying none of their instructors use Hitec radios. One club told me to go ahead and get the Aurora 9. He said there should be an adapter cord available to connect it to Futaba or Spektrum. Any one know if this is true and if so where I can get one? I really would like to get the Hitec, but if it can't be hooked up to the other radios, I will have to go with the DX8, but that would be alright as well. I talked to the guys at 2 different shops today and they both said in the area I live in there are about 50% Futaba, with about 40% being Spektrum and JR. I looked at a 12 channel JR and was really impressed with it. It was by far the best feeling radio but when he told me the price I almost had the big one. Almost $1300.00. Yikes! All the best, Ron.