I'm just getting back into planes after a long absence, primarily for my teeneage son's benefit (yeah, right!) We bought RealFlight and it is very useful if nothing else but to remind me how hard I have to concentrate on maintaining the correct orientation, particularly when its coming towards you.

My son has no problems whatsoever. It just comes naturally. I put it down to the "Playstation Generation" They just seem to have a more natural sence of perspective having sat for hours on end bashing at those joypads.

First time out with our trainer he just flew it, no problems, no mishaps. It just didn't seem like a big deal to him (even when I was screaming at hime to slow down). Maybe his R/C car experience has helped - but even I can cope with them.

When we, the fortysomethings and older were kids there was nothing like Playstations, Flight Sims etc. Your first R/C experience really was like nothing else you had undertaken.

25 years ago getting into R/C was a major investment. My son's attitude, "even if I total it, a new ARTF is cheap anyway" How times have changed.

Not having any instruction isn't going to stop my son from getting out there and enjoying himself and probably with reasonable success to boot.

As for me................