This is kind of what I was wondering. I've been a "top 3" (or maybe 4) type guy, originally it was Airtronics, Futaba and JR. When Spektrum came out eventually I viewed them as a top and since I was interested in a lot of the BNF stuff I went that route with this round. I still have my old Futaba 9CAP which I happened to like the layout and menu much better but it's older technology.
When FrSky, FlySky, Radiomaster and a bunch of others came out at 1/2 or even 1/4 the price of the radios I trusted my initial reaction was skeptical. After all if you're flying drones like I do (not much!) then you crash them all the time. So little blips here and there at least seem less important than when you have that 30cc plane in the air. But, it's been years now and those "inferior priced" radios don't have a reputation of shoddy performance, so maybe they are as good. This is me just thinking out loud, don't think I'm putting any of these radios down, I guess because of the cheap price I thought they were cheap radios but I see so many, and so many happy customers, that I don't think that's the case.
I guess the original intent was just to see why FrSky seemed to be the default receiver in just about every BNF drone out there with very few exceptions. Maybe it's price? Maybe it's better? Dunno. I may be in the market for a new radio, so now the TX16S or whatever it is with the module that binds to just about everything seems nice. Not a sexy looking TX, but it'll do. I like the Tarannis X9D+ (silver or carbon) for looks, but I hear so many horror stories about programmability (super capable, and super difficult). I'm the guy who likes the most useful 10% of features and the others never use so they just confuse me but I do see their appeal as when I was younger I did like to just tinker more.
Ahh, I digress, good morning all.
- Joe