Originally posted by Gordon Mc
... I see an awful lot of people selecting 1 second - and that's plenty of time for a close-in aircraft to tilt inwards and shew me up while it's waiting for either (a) a valid signel, or (b) 1 second to elapse before engaging failsafe settings.

Ouch! Good point Gordon.
I understand the fail-safe delay is not even programmable for some models. I wonder what the default is....