I fly with a Futaba 6XAS. I wished it had more memory, but other than that it has always done what I needed it to do. I view Radios much like I do computers. Just as soon as you spend the most on the best, a better more expensive one comes out shortly after and makes yours look obsolete. I have never really been into trying to impress anyone, so I just fly with my Futaba 6XA and am happy with it. Some of my Planes are more advanced than some people I see who are using high dollar 9 channel radios to control Planes that would do just as well under the control of a 4 channel Futaba Skysport. So I believe a person should stop and think "is this something I need", or "something I want to have to impress others with?" Don't take me wrong. There are pilots who are very advanced, and flying very advanced aircraft that make good use of the extra functions on a top of the line radio, but I think you will find that alot of people don't even know how to program there fancy 9 channel or 14mz($2100.00) radios.