ORIGINAL: Ron Stahl
I belive that many guys feel the need to spend money to impress themselves or others. The one thing I got rid of long ago was switches in the planes; I plug my one known good battery into an extension coming out of the rx.
Ron, a few years ago there was a something published by Graupner saying that the worst and weakest link in our systems were the switches (I guess they were trying to sell something, haha)... but because of that we started doing what you mention: no switches, just extensions and a piece of masking tape to make (just to make sure)
Now we use fail open switches
I do agree with using dual batteries. Not through fancy powerboxes and stuff, just a regular JR (or whatever you fly) receiver.
Jack G