Quality Control issues with the Interlink has been a known issue for a while now. Futaba claimed to have let a "bad batch" slip by. I agree with your point that it's poorly designed, but at the same time, I don't agree that it's Great Planes's fault either... Futaba made the thing... The quality of Futaba Tx units has gone down quite a bit in the 30 years I've been around this hobby. Great Planes and Knife Edge (the programmers) are actually doing a great job (IMHO) of replacing defective units.

If you have one of the bad units, call GP support and let them replace it for you. Opening the case voids the warranty, and may make it problematic for them to replace it. I doubt the makers of FSOne would appreciate everyone opening up the interface box either....!

Reading about all the Interlink problems, you'd tend to believe that it's a wide spread problem. But I also wonder how many thousands or millions of completely happy customers are out there that never say a thing about it...?

Oh, and my 2 Interlink controllers are both going strong. One is just under a year old, and the other came with the very first version of G3 that Tower Hobbies sold...

-Case