Originally Posted by franklin_m

How cool! I also got one for Christmas, and you're right, it's pretty daunting to learn, but HIGHLY capable. A trusted friend has one, and he strongly recommended it. In fact, of the programming, he said "there's multiple ways to achieve the same thing" which is nice. Plus, you can't beat the "cost per channel" of them. I compared Spektrum at between $40 per channel (DX8) to $60 per channel (DX20) vs. Taranis at about $17 per channel ($280/16).

I've updated my sound files already to a slighly less computer sounding female voice (from my test flight days, science shows that female voice warnings produce higher response rate, in both men AND women).

In fact today I just bought a GPS unit and LiPo voltage sensor for telementry for a low end HobbyPower S500 MR. I've been trying to kludge together native telemetry out of an ancient APM 2.8 module. It's possible, but requires some homebrew electronics interface for the APM. I don't need it all and I'm going for a more simple approach w/ the FrSky GPS and Lipo. My next MR will have PixHawk, which can output native telemetry (GPS and other info) to FrSky w/o additional equipment. I'll put the GPS into other planes and helis as I need them.