I have had good luck with my DX6i and currently have 2 helis and 1 plank bound to it(at this point my only radio). When I got my father-inlaw(Steve) in to planes he bought a hobbico cessna 182 nice looking plane but no for a fresh noob(he's rock headed). Then we moved to foamies and told him we take the gear from the cessna and put it on foamies and your ready to go. Next we started building scratch foamies Steve then liking his radio(72mhz Tactic) wondered around ebay and picked up 3 more tx's and rx's for around $20 so he has 1 set for each foamie. So Steve has 3 backups to my zero LOL