How about, how would/could you really know if you're not a "real pilot"? Think about it. But I digress in provocative semi-jest.

Woody your inaccurate paraphrasing, presumably referring if only in part to what I'd said in the previous post, reflects that you either didn't read or comprehend accurately what was written. As you've stereotypically paraphrased it into a cliché as worn out as it is inaccurate, what should be an intelligent point of discussion assumes that stupid, tired and pointlessly ugly argument so oft presented which is really one of ego assertion in disguise rather than one based upon reflection of salient truths.

Whether you "buy it" or not, what I've referred to is substantiated by investigative fact. Whether their individual decisions were made emotively or logically, or your or my opinions coincide are irrelevant.

And if the immediately available empirical evidence implies any significance to what has thus been said, Lancair & I are both mode 2 fliers. Of the pilots I know who fly R/C, the stats are as previously elaborated to in my previous post. Saliently, most pilots who learn to fly R/C after becoming licensed pilots, excluding the club 'legends' who "went for a TIF/had a lesson once" or "held a student licence once", prefer to learn mode 2 if aware of and offered the choice. Professional pilots invariably insist upon it. I shan't reiterate the rest which by way of illustrative examle is applicable to a young fellow whom I mentored, who is now a professional pilot but who learnt to fly R/C before becoming your definition "real pilot" and who learnt and still flies R/C mode 1.

Do a search here and find the "mode 1 vs mode" 2 thread where in a post by me you'll finally find your evasive and long sought after logical reason.

Frankly, that's a stupid idea. One shouldn't have to explain why. And the fact that your original instructor was/is a QANTAS driver doesn't necessarily impart instructing skills, let alone imply good instructing skills. And before you go 'my quoted sources are more impressive than your sources', 'I have the biggest gun' ballistic, spare a moment to think what formal qualifications we who are commenting here might have which hold equal or greater credential weight than your referred to R/C instructor. Both Lancair & I hold Instructor Ratings, & myself the MAAQ R/C one amongst a stack of other professional aviation credentials for those impressed by chest puffing more than weight of intelligent, informed debate.

Even those of us of sufficient ambidexterity to manage flight in either mode have an observable predilection for one or the other, usually the one most frequently practised which more frequently than not coincides with first learnt. One can change modes successfully with discipline and perseverence, though the overwhelming majority simply don't have sufficient motivation and determination to do so even when presented with a valid reason. That's just human nature. Anyone who says to me that they don't have a mode preference is deluding only themselves or lying. If the latter they're fooling no-one but themselves. By way of analogy over many years I've driven from all possible combination of seats and controls combos in aeroplanes and I have a definite preference. Similarly with English/Italian motorcycles of bygone era versus opposing conventional control ergonomics adopted by the Japanese. With exposure, one can get used to an operate the gears/brakes either side & in reverse direction well enough, but one arrangement is ergonomically superior - as well as my personal preference. Similarly though less challenging and valid the drive on the left side right side of the road argument. That's a much easier either or without any valid superiority argument I'm aware of, but doing both? In the latter case particularly, the one practised most frequently, presently and continuously quickly becomes most 'natural'.

Trying to teach both modes to someone who is in the novitiate state of not knowing whether they're Arthur or Martha in the air and has zero datum upon which to base any meaningfully comparitive appreciation is likely ony to confuse and impede a student in his/her progress. Load shed thresholds, performance and perceived plateaus, confidence vs skill curves, impediments to learning in the dynamic teaching environment. When you are up to speed on those, there may actually be some point to discussion. Until then, just accept that KISS is best, and that includes not confusing any prospective student irrespective of individual intelligence with superfluous information or choice he is ill-equipped to appreciate let alone assimilate or benefit from.

And you offer this after referring to a requirement if I might paraphrase you "logical reasons"? Pardon my mirth. If ever there was a mode more biased toward right hand orientated operation, it's mode 2. And don't you think that this right-handedness might just have a little to do with the fact that the majority of the world flies mode 2? Or that stick and pole airplanes are invariably flown with the right hand controllig the stick and left on the throttle where the design is not otherwise due to economic imperative? Mode 1 control came about through TX control limitated ergonomics of an era passed. In 2004, there's no valid ergonomic reason limiting R/C flight to mode 1, nor preferring it. Coercion to join the dark side by the forces of evil persists only through inheritance and ignorance.

Raising awareness and offering a stud a choice of mode selection, notably not something usually proffered by the "we only fly mode 1 here" parochial club forefathers is a "wise move". However that differes entirely from teaching both, and equally unwise move.