I am on my 3rd plane now, and I thought to myself when I bought my radio system earlier this year.... WHY would I EVER need more than 6 channels. I bought the Futaba 6EXA, and yes, its a great radio system. But it has limited functions. If I wanted to just fly around the pattern, it would be all I would ever need.

Now that I am DEEEEP in the hobby I find that my 6EXA is very lacking for what I am growing into. Alieron differential is one thing that the 6EXA can not do. You can not tune the 2 seperate servos for the ailerons seperatly. Cant crow, and cant do many other things that I will need later as a pattern/3D flyer.

Also, the more I research radio systems, the more I dislike futaba for all thier "marketing schemes" like chaning the trainer cord plug, splitting thier freqs, stuff like that.

My next radio will be a JR XP8103 8-Channel FM or maybe the Futaba 9CAP 9-Channel PCM