ORIGINAL: LouW
As an actual flight instructor for some forty years, in addition to being a model airplane "pilot", I have had occasion to teach R/C model "pilots" to fly. Operating a model airplane in no way prepares you to fly actual airplanes. A model "pilot" is just as confused in the cockpit during his first flights as any other student. There is really no comparison between the skill and training required to toss a little model around an open field and making an approach to ATL on a dark and stormy night with an engine out. It's like tossing a nerf ball around the front yard vs playing football in the NFL. I flew model airplanes for years before becoming an actual pilot and will continue to fly them whenever I lose my medical and can no longer fly the real ones, and I enjoy every minute of it. But before you get too smug, remember that "going solo" means you are the sole occupant of the aircraft.
too smug? well now before you get too offended i think the point here is the original poster is excited and honored to teach a commercial pilot about the ways of the modeling world. tossing a little model around yeah sure get off it lol. maybe he flys 46% extras. and one more little thing going solo only means sole occupant in the full scale world in the modeling world it doesnt assume any occupants. in the high school band the solo is the one playing you guessed it alone. i think maybe you have your proffesion and your hobby mixed up. flying a model is not the same as flying the real thing but the real thing isnt the same as a model and no one said it was so relax a little take a deep breath you'll be alright