And in my experience, doubly so for helicopters!! Over 4000 hrs in full scale, 2200+ of that in helicopters, and I still can't get the hang of RC heli's to save my life. Too much of my brain wants the RC heli to behave exactly like the 1:1 and the RC just doesn't seem to be accomodating.

As far as having to judge our planes' performance soley by our perspective view; there really is a definite skill set that needs to be developed and a good deal of that relates to understanding the performance envelope othe plane, good co-ordinated flight skills and reading and understanding the "clues" given by the plane in each phase of flight.

We have one guy at our field who ALWAYS comes in for landing at the same perceived speed(relative to the ground) regardless of wind speed or direction. The result is many stalls, crazy landings and repairs when the wind is down, or lots of long landings and rolling off the end of the runway when the wind is up a bit and near straight down the runway. We won't even go into cross winds!![X(]
This guy just doesn't seem to get it; always says "a gust or breeze shift got it at the last second before landing" on the calm day crack-ups. Can't seem to grasp the concept of reduced control authority when close to a stall and that you just can't get that appearance of a nice slow paced approach and low, low speed touch down on a calm day the same as on a windy day.