Thanks for the response Troy. I tend to agree with you that JR has always had better mechanical design and construction. I was really looking for differences in performance and features. I haven't kept up with all the latest but in the past it seemed like Futaba led the way in new capabilities. I like what I read about the 14MZ in terms of resolution and latency. I'm beginning to think latency is more important than we realized. I've flown a few DX7s and they feel real good. I like the Futaba's ability to assign any switch to any function and the spline curve capability.

What is sad is that there isn't anyone in the US that is really knowledgeable about what is in these systems so they could compare one to the other. Or even better. specify what we want in our systems. I notice the European transmitters made by Futaba and JR don't look like ours.

In the end it probably doesn't matter when it comes to flying well. Dave Brown beat everyone and he certainly did not have state of the art equipment.

Jim