When I started out I was flying planes and used a stick radio. When I got into cars I used a surface stick radio. Finally switched to a wheel and liked it better for the surface stuff. Took me a little while to get used to the wheel radio but I'm not sorry I switched. This was in the late 80's. I still use a stick for planes and helis but haven't used a stick for ground stuff since i got my first wheel radio. Plane radios used to use different frequencies than surface stuff back then. I don't know what they're doing now with the new radios. I still use my old long antenna radios for planes.