a lot more reliable to start
mmm, on the RC side I'm not sure they are much better since I last posted on this thread couple years back. Since then:
-bad egt probe
-bad glow plug
-newish turbine had stiction on the starter motor but if you could reach in and spin the bendix by hand it would start.
-another with bad starter motor.

But no catastrophies. Above were all fixable for a price.
Darren