Product review (4 stars): peerless quality--but those alerts though!
The DX8 is such a fantastic transmitter that I don't think I'll ever upgrade again. It has more bells and whistles than I've needed thus far, but that I may need further down my career path. As a discontinued product, it is also now irreplaceable. The DX8 has only one gaping flaw--the alerts. If you leave it on without any inputs, it will start beeping and vibrating. Same if the throttle is not at zero upon startup or if your flaps are not raised. It is perfectly fine to notify the user of these situations, but it doesn't take a fire alarm to make us aware of what's wrong. Now the neighborhood knows flaps are mid-position!