RE: FM or PCM ?
Nothing is more convincing that this story which details my PCM PPM story.
I was flying my Cub on my Futaba PCM and shortly after take off the plane started to numb to my controls. I knew immediately that I was in the process of being shot down. Because it's a Cub and has self righting capabilities, when it wouldn't listen to me, at least all it did was to return to failsafe, which was idle and neutral controls. With just intermittent control, I flew her down. I walked all the way to the beginning of the runway to make sure I was the closest to my plane when it touched down. After cutting the throttle and retrieving my plane, I stomped over the frequency board and found that someone did have the exact frequency I was flying. I whipped out my mobile phone and called the culprit. We immediately got yelling at each other when I saw him walking up the outside of the fence, one hand carrying his phone and the other, his engine connected to the fuel tank. His plane was a total loss.
He was running PPM and actually even after he crashed, he didn't even turn off his radio. He left it on at the flight line, antenae fully extended. I was pretty pissed off that someone would be that EVIL as to do that but even with that, I was able to save my plane. While I still run many planes PPM, I save my best planes for PCM since failsafe can save a plane. Had it not been for failsafe (which I believe is now available separately) I would have lost the plane and may have injured someone.