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It woudl be much nicer if it was ~$100 cheaper! 3 channels for $250 is a bit steep for me.

On the gimble issue, its very easy to remove the ratchet mechansim and return the up and down travel to normal, same as how the other stick works- thats what I did with my laser 6 so no worries there ( seen inside the dx6i in some vids and tutorials, pretty much the same looking as a normal stick radio so easy to work on ).

I hear you on the 2 axis thing though Redshift, it is a little weird compared to a normal 2 channel stick radio, but I dont really notice it anymore- you can lock the horizontal and vertical as required on each stick, just takes a little bit of tweaking and some nimble fingers- I didnt bother out of sheer lazyness, just wanted to go drive when I first got my Gmaxx setup and running.

The airtronics radio looks just like a normal 4/6 channel stick radio, cant see any difference really- I will do some more digging though, but I think for the price and features the DX6i has me won over...