Well I couldn't agree more with all the last posts; cause they are all right in their own perspectives.

I agree with you according to what you said about feel and pilot perspective.

But I completely disagree on the last phrase. You see a good 1:1 pilot knows how to fly the airplane and make the right desision in life or death situations. The same implies to the 1:4 scale or 1:7 scale model airplane pilot who is capable to fly his model airplane, no matter if it is more difficult than flying the 1:1 because of the lack of cockpit info. A good pilot is a good pilot. It doesn't matter if he is piloting a 1:1 plane or a model airplane.
The quality of a pilot is affected from his natural skills of feeling the airplane that he flies, and of course his knowledge of flying technique, aerodynamics etc. I am a 1:1 PPL pilot, also a modeller, and I have seen modellers that are lacking in technique when its windy even in taxiing their models downwind; one thing that leads always in groundlooping their models even before flying them just because they do not know how to operate their elevators, rudders and ailerons.... I've seen modellers getting in thermal waves while they were shouting "glitch" , "radio interference"...
I've seen modellers that try to fly 3D aerobatics and are missing completely a normal sideslipping landing pattern .....
With all the previous examples and a dozen more what I am trying to tell you is that because it is more difficult to fly model airplanes than 1:1 planes, one thing is certain. Feeling is one part that counts , but the most basic part that counts is aviation knowledge. All of us , the modellers must have our ears and eyes open to Aviation knowledge and this is the only way to get better.
Pride and only leads always in rebuilding r/c models.
Cheers to all
JR