My hope is this... I hope he is away from his desk having turkey and ham leftovers with his friends and family. Hopefully he is in Hawaii for two weeks with someone special. Hopefully he is playing with his kids/grandkids and flying airplanes with his local club or flying electrics in the park. After all, I would like my product support person to actually participate and enjoy the hobby.

My fear is that the FASST module was released to get it out before the Christmas "giving" without the required TX firmware update. If that is the case, my guess is that there is a full-on panic at Futaba/Great Panes and he is not having much of a holiday.

In ether event, we probably won't get an answer until the new year.

Still, I understand your question and frustration. I also have a 14MZ and look forward to the 2.4 Futaba systems. Of course you are completely correct in that, it is wholly unacceptable to take modelers money for the purpose of releasing this before Christmas. It, of course, is not unprecedented. Every day that goes by that the FASST system is NOT released is another day modelers buy brand-X's. A lot of money will be spent over the Christmas holiday that could be spent on a neat (Futaba) hobby upgrade. Further, it gets harder to sell a $400.00 anything in January and February when the holiday credit card bills roll in. Hey, it's business. I sometimes feel for Bax and folks in his possition at the tip of the customer-support-spear having to deal with other's economic decisions.

Bill