I'm primarily a Futaba guy, but use the JR Gold Deluxe switch.

About 7 years ago on the 2nd flight of my first Vortex Q500 and the plane locked up doing large loops over the center of the field and continued to do loops completely uncontrolled at full throttle for about a minute till it ran out of fuel. After the motor quit, control was back, and the plane was safely landed.

On the ground, we could shake the plane and get intermittent control, which wasn't an issue on the running range test we did before the first flight. The problem went away after putting in another switch. The switch was a brand new futaba switch like I had been using. I know many people that use that switch for racing models, but that incident was enough to scare me away.

Since then I have also gone away from the wire out the side, and now use fly fishing string to further reduce the vibration back to the switch. Pull out the left side for on, the right side for off.

Everyone has a story about some component failing, and now they refuse to use it. I believe all products can go bad, and sometimes do, so take this as you will. Just the physical beefy-ness, and the solid click of the swtich turning on and off of the JR switch makes me feel safer I know some other guys using the heavy duty futaba switch also, so good luck.