ORIGINAL: aparchment
Someone just wrote an article in the AMA magazine stating the opinion that two receivers are not useful and in fact may be harmful due to the increased failure rate and supposedly reduced range. I have heard a bunch of people say that dual receivers aren't necessary in a 33% plane. Okay, then why are they necessary in a 35 or 40%?
They aren't. Somenzini, Goldsmith, McConville, and I believe Hyde and Hemple all run a single receivers in their 40% and larger planes. So if the very sound technical reasons for not using two RX's are not enough, maybe the above fact is. Maybe not.
Otherwise, run 2 RX's, have a blast and don't worry what other people think. Make your own decision based on what you think is best. Just don't expect everyone to agree with you.
Bill