Got half-a-dozen flights on the A9 now, I'm slowly getting used to it. It's amaizing how a new radio can make you have to learn how to fly your familiar aircraft all over again. I'm pretty comfortable with my Yak-54 (90 size), took some getting used to and a little trimming as well (I had changed the CG as well though). That darn reciever is so light I had to move weight back to compensate for it! You heli guys will love the programming of this radio as well as some of the cool features (swash servo calibration!). It took me a little while to figure out how to get the 120 ccpm servos moving in the same direction but once I found the swash calibration screen it was a snap. By the way I have not cracked the manual for programming or looked online once and I've programmed a 1/4 scale H9 cub (flown), 120 Yak (flown), a heli (have yet to fly), as well as my ClearView flight sim (flown a billion times). I have s special model saved just for the sim so I don't mess with a real model. As for the battery, last weekend it was nice enough for me to spend a day at the field flying and I got in 5 (or 6) flights (2 @ 7 min, 3 @ 12 min) and the display showed 70% battery remaining. I don't think I'm going to worry about a Lipo, but I am going to do the cycle charge jack mod Striker came up with. Striker that is pure brilliance, it is very smple, safe and effective, I Iove it and it makes me mad I didn't think of it first. Thanks to your idea I'll be able to use my ACE Supper Smart Charger for another 10 years! By the way I will need a neck strap balancer (NSB), sorry all you purists, I just cant fly with thumbs and hold the transmitter at the same time (I can't chew gum while I fly either!) and this thing does not hang well at all. Any how, I found the "pretty red one" (Mike showed but failed to fess up to where to get it), finally online and ordered one. Once I get it in I'll report on how it works as well as where I found it. They've got some neat stuff but I'll wait to give you the "HTTP" untill I get my order and verify they are worthy of the PR. One last note about the display, it may not be as hard to read as I first mentioned. I was able to see how much time was on my  timer this afternoon while flying with only a little more effort than my old radio. I will say that I had the sun directly to my back today as I flew till the sun set so It may have helped, but I could read it without loosing sight of my plane (Futaba does have a better display but if it keeps cost down I'll take it and stop complaining). Oh, as for range, I've not had a problem with a gasser and flying to the limits of my vision (long way's out, believe me), no problems at all! Sorry for the book, Hope you guys get them soon, I'm getting "perma-grin" from smilling while I read about the back order stories and I've got one with 4 recievers already (dumb luck), Come on summer!

Have fun!