I can't understand everyone going ga-ga over the new futaba...maybe they have not tried the multiplex. I had the chance to play around with an EVO 12ch syth... Man that thing is flexible, you can assign anything to anything (like timer to throttle stick), very easy to work through the menus and get to where you need to go. I would have bought one too, except I decided to give JR one last chance, and bought the 9303. (I'm finding the JR not as flexible in programming as I would like..the 9303 looks like it will change all that!)