RE: Why not move on to R/C ?
Went there , Done that --- came back up to UC. I tried RC for several years (had a very goos tutor I might add). I had NO feel of what the plane was doing and there was NO rush of the low altitude maneuvering that I get with UC. My tutor said "I was moving UP" in model aviation, but I found that he had his controls reversed. I went inverted and came back UP to UC and will stay here.
Bigiron