ORIGINAL: Leardriver
OK, so what you guys are saying is that receivers never fail?
No
Do I have that right?
No
There is absolutley no chance of a bad solder joint, filter, cap, crystal......................anything at all? Wow, that is truely impressive!
Yeah, there are plenty of chances. If you're advocating that one receiver can fail, you're inadvertantly advocating that 2 receivers DOUBLES you chance for experiencing a failure.
Hmmmmm...it seems to me that I have never heard of a plane crashing because the guy had a secomd receiver installed. And you guys have never heard of anybody losing their plane due to receiver failure of some type?
Funny, I've never heard of anybody bringing an airplane home safely because they DID have 2 receivers installed. Never, and I've been flying on and off (mostly on) for 20 years. I've never seen someone safely land because they had control of half the control surfaces on their airplane.
Sure I've HEARD of people losing their planes because they SAID there was a radio problem. Mostly, I chalk crashes like that up to pride....it's easier to say it was the radio than to admit you crashed.
I've never not even once experienced a transmitter to receiver problem. Both times I crashed and it was not me just flying the plane into the ground/tree whatever it was the on/off switch that gave up the ghost. In 20 years of flying I've never even experienced a glitch, never, not one.
I guess I'm the only one................
Leardriver
You're not the only one.
Run 2 receivers if you like it, go right ahead, it'a free country. Just don't stand there and say it makes your plane any safer that a plane with only 1 receiver or the powerbox system. Like I said in my previous post it's ALL a crapshoot. There are steps we can take to make it less of a crapshoot, but NOTHING we can do and NOTHING we can buy that completely eliminates the inherent risk. 6 of one, half dozen of another. Having a PB in my plane makes me feel better, same with the SWB self adjusting rudder servo tray, makes me feel good, is it fullproof? Absolutely not.
Seems like this huge argument over "mine's bigger than yours" is completely irrelavant cuz it doesn't matter the size, EVERYBODY experiences premature e-crash-ulation at least once in their lifetime.