ORIGINAL: traiders
I guess I'm old school, I, not convinced 2.4 ghz is bullet proof yet. The more that switch over makes my 72 MHz safer to use. Up front cost of some 2.4ghz radios would be great cost of equipment to only find out you didn't like flying.
Unfortunately that doesn't prevent the kid with the walmart or radio shack special from getting out of the car and turning on not knowing any better, where with 2.4 thats no issue.
72 is definately less busy though, IRCHA had 780 pilots and only impounded 43 radios last August.