My experience with Fail Safe setups has proven to me that it only really creates an illusion that the pilot *may* regain control before the crash, or during it.
A "sort of" properly functioning radio is really worse than one that just dies, at least from my experience.
Fail safe if "intermittent" could leave you with a killed engine, and no means of restarting it if you did "get it back". I prefer that a radio failure just crash the thing, ending any doubt.
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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