ORIGINAL: Charley
I don't want a momentary loss of signal to kill my engine. What if I get control back and the model is too far downwind to glide back to the field? I would rather that the fail safe reduce the engine RPM to low idle.
CR
I would always rather err on the side of a dead engine. If you're experiencing enough signal loss with a modern radio to invoke fail safe, you're probably not going to get signal back. If you are getting yourself in that situation where it comes and goes, then your power system is probably inadaquate for the flight load.
But if thats your choice, then setting the proper fail safe will give you what you want, kill -on/throttle - low