Jeremy,
My friend almost lost his plane at Kentucky Jets last month due to this problem. He and I both have 12FG's that I purchased at the same time about two years ago. As he was taking off, he needed a lot of back stick to rotate and then didn't have enough elevator right as it rotated. After looking at the radio in the AFR menu(the menu that graphically shows the elevator stick position), you could see the elevator stick position was way off and it was off with all the models programmed into the radio. Major Woody who you should know from the jets forum lost two jets last year that he blames on his 12FG. He bought a new one after losing the second jet and hasn't had a problem since. Obviously this is very disconcerting. I have been using Futaba for 14 years and never had a problem with any of their radios. I love my 12FG as it does everything I need for my jets and it is reasonably priced for what is essentially a 14 channel radio. I'm not sure how many radios are having this problem but to have to think about this every time I take to the air with a 5K jet is quite troubling and most companies in general wait until there are "too" many customers with problems before recalling an item to update or change out something.

Marty