One of RCUs' main uses for me besides BSing about planes is to serve as a "consumer reports" venue. I hate to see it, [but it happens more often than not] when a guy gets static for reporting about substandard service or equipment. Take a look at the recent reports given about the failures of Futabas' high frequency radio....the Futaba "groupies" were all over the guys who chimed in, to the point of ridicule. We even had AMAs' tech director issue a stern warning to the masses that unless this kind of stuff STOPS AND STOPS NOW, the manufacturers are going to drag up on us and stop "supporting" the hobby. This kind of thinking is an insult to normal intelligence.
As it turns out, Futaba rushed a radio system into production before they had all the QC issues worked out and they let the modeling public do some of their R&D for them. Several $1000 worth of planes later and after some threads about the system failures the bugs were eventually fixed. Who knows how many possible losses the posts about DSS saved others?