One of the main reasons I purchased XPS equipment in the first place was for frequency redundancy.
JD orginally posted this:
“We are the ONLY 2.4GHz system that has the ability to monitor the available frequencies in the 2.4GHz range and change as necessary, in real time. This means that the plane as well as the transmitter can make the change occur. If you flew your plane over a school with a huge 14dbi external 802.xx antenna, that would likely be cause for switching to a new frequency (away from whatever channel that 802.xx was on.”
and this:
JD from November 2006:"If there was a burst at a particular frequency or range, we would just hop to something that wasn't an issue. Now, if you had some other competing 2.4GHz radio... you would be in trouble."
I don't know how others might read this but to me it says that if interference starts to show up on the XPS channel in use, BAM, the system can hop away. The videos Tychoc and Kiwi did clearly show this not to be the case.
I don't know about the "ethical thing to do" but one of the nice things about the FASST, Airtronics and Spektrum systems is the built in frequency redundancy which we don't have with 72MHz, and a more secure RF link was one of the things I wanted that 2.4GHz could deliver. I thought I got that with XPS but as far as I can tell, I did not. The system obviously works but then again so does the Assan system but I never would have bought it (and didn't) because I knew it didn't have built in frequency redundancy. My original purchase might not have been bought for "ethical" reasons but it certainly was done for greater safety, or so I thought.