Originally Posted by franklin_m

Good for you! I think that is absolutely the reason your fleet is almost entirely intact. Years ago, military aviation had the mentality of "kick the tires, light the fires." Well, it's no wonder we were crashing so often.

Complex systems fail in complex ways, and much of what is flying today are indeed complex systems - gyros, battery busses, servo busses, transmitter programming, multiple receivers, multi-path signals, onboard control systems, vibration issues, onboard EMI, offboard EMI, etc. Some are quick to blame this radio brand or that radio brand when it's likely one or more of the above (or the one that's really the case most often - pilot error).