In the vast majority of cases using the simple visual technique that I outlined in post #8 will prevent any surprises with any maiden flight on trainers or most sport types. In fact it is what I have done with every airplane some walks up and wants me to do a maiden going back to the sixties. That and my personal assessment of its actual CG and linkage set up, throws etc.

Indeed I share in Jesters hesitation about Spectrum and have personally always avoided it. Have witnessed to many problems since its arrival and everyone locally who have used it almost in every case ends up using at some point in the future futaba or hitec.

Johnny I can tell you little of the Graupner product other than it is a well respected system in Europe. However few are used in this country and that's the rub not only would it be difficult to find others to compare notes with but also I would be concerned with after purchase product support. I actually owned and used an early Graupner system in Germany when I was there in the early sixties but of course that was the Jurasic period in terms of RC radios

Johnny my best suggestion to you for an excellent midrange radio would be something like the 500 hundred dollar Futaba 14SG.

Oh by the way Voice on any radio system one tends to soon tire of. I had the Hitec voice on several of my A9's and of course after the novelty wore off quickly removed the device.

John