As Gary Schmidt has said, we are both Futaba sponsored pilots, we have been using the SWH-13 switch for ever since I can remember, have I crashed before, more than you guys want to know, my son Bryan is also a Futaba sponsored pilot and uses all the same equipment and he has had his share of crashes also. My point is that I don't care what you all say, once that equipment hits the ground at the speeds we are traveling you can not pin point were the failure is, the equipment is too destroyed from the impact. When you can say that you crashed and the switch was not fused after impact, you can't prove that it wasn't fused before impact. Gary, myself and my son all fly very fast, very high vibration airplanes and I have never had a switch get harder to turn on and off or whatever. We fly Q500, Q40 and Gary also fly's FAI with the same equipment. My switches are mounted inside the airplane, mounted to the servo tray which would be 1/8 5-ply plywood, I drill a small hole in the switch and either run a piece of music wire out the side or a fish line or string out both sides of the airplane where you pull it one direction to turn it on and the other to turn it off.

Now when Don says he has trim issue's again I'm totally confused on how that could happen. I can put an airplane away for two years, and as long as I haven't changed the settings in the transmitter I can go out and fly it and nothing changes. Trim memory is in the transmitter, it has nothing to do with the switch, battery or reciever, if your having trim issue's in between flights, or when you unplug and plug things back in then your servo's suck, they are not centering correctly and with these aircraft and the abuse we put them through why you would want to put cheap servo's in there to take those chances is beyond me, or if your servo's are OK, then you have a trim memory problem in your transmitter and you should have it looked at.

I also fly as Gary does with several JR pilots that are very good friends of ours and they use that gold switch that others have described and I know that is a quality switch also, so if that give you more piece of mind then I suggest you get them and try them, but in the end of the day, they are all quality equipment piece's.