AG, once again your negativity, astounds me; You would be surprised how much control you have with even those basic controls, I've had plenty of cheap toys that work the same way and they perform just fine if you simply feather the controls, it's quiet simple, and the cost of those chips and components is FAR bellow more advanced RC equipment. If you use a micro controller as an interface you can even transmit binary data in 4 bit packets with the 5th as a strobe.