ORIGINAL: Mode One
How's about the Airtronics RDS8000? Airtronics should not be left out of consideration! I have seen no bad press on this radio, here or elsewhere on the web.
There was just a thread about that TX and not being able to do end point adjustments on the slave aileron. That alone would nix it for me.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_8878097/tm.htm
Don