You are right, I mis-remembered something I read a while ago:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...7&postcount=43
Looks like Patrick is a proponent of no-spark on their airplane ESCs:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...32&postcount=8
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