FWIW..

I have been flying RC Models since '63, full size since '82....

Many skills from RC models transfer easily to full size aircraft
poiloting, and skilled RC pilots can progress rapidly through the
"flying" part of pilot training.

Full size pilots usually take LONGER to be comfortable flying RC,
usually due to the lack of sensory inputs from stall, airspeed and
attitude indicators and their "butt". The interpetation of speeds and
attitudes all (and only) visually at a distance is difficult.

I have trained several to fly RC and there is some "unlearning"
involved.

And there are some that think that after several hundred hours in a
full size plane this "toy" airplane should be a "no brainer" to
fly!...

BIG mistake!!

Dave



On Sat, 22 May 2010 15:42:27 -0400, "vaughn"
wrote:


"birdog" wrote in message
...
Learning to fly these RC toys is about as hard as the real thing, and my
piloting experience helped me not one wit.

In the soaring world, I know of at least two cases where previous RC experience
seemed to transfer very well to the "real thing". Not so much in the actual
mechanics of learning how to solo, but in learning how to stay up and go
somewhere once solo in achieved.

Vaughn