If you are based in the US, just want to fly, and don't like learning from youtube and spending time tinkering with settings, I'd recommend something in the Spektrum family.
If you enjoy learning and tinkering with stuff just as much as flying, love flexibility and are just fine with researching questions online and learning from youtube, go for one of the radios that run OpenTX. These days I'd recommend either Jumper or Radiomaster.
I recommend staying away from FrSky now and won't buy anymore of their equipment myself (even though I own 4 of their older radios). With the new ACCESS encrypted communication protocol they are heading down the "you must buy receivers from us and nobody else because our encryption locks you in path" - sort of like the Keurig coffee maker that would only use their own coffee cups and no competitors or generics.
Thank you!
Looking at these now. The TX16s looks great.
Just to be clear, since it is opentx, I would be able to bind it to a plane with a dsm2 6 ch um as3x rx bl-ese receiver?
I received a plane and the recommended transmitter is dsm2/dsmx. Just want to know if I would be able to fly it with an opentx transmitter like tx16s.