ORIGINAL: RCKen
Ok guys, let's back down the conversation a bit. There's no need to get your hackles up over this.
A lot of what determines which mode is used is where you live. In Australia a lot of pilots fly Mode 1, simply because that's what everybody else does. That doesn't make them right and that doesn't make them wrong. It's a lot like the British driving on the other side of the road than we do. It's just the way that they do it. Same thing with radio modes.
Ken
Yep... I fly mode 1 and do so without constant crashes.. so do the other 230 people in the club I'm in so either Aussies have smarter thumbs than americans or it's just as easy to fly either mode, depending on what you're originally taught. I even edited Realflight's .ini file so the little on-screen radio shows up in mode 1.
I know when I was in the US it took me ages to learn to drive on the "wrong" side of the road and even walking across the road was flirting with disaster as I kept looking the wrong way for oncoming traffic, yet millions of americans seem to do it with no more than the usual number of accidents. It was a bit of a culture shock the first time I got in the "driver's" side of an american car though, only to find a glove box instead of a steering wheel there. Doesn't matter how often you see it on TV, it's not real till you see it in real life.
