ORIGINAL: NVflyer
I was only trying to say that SOME people are able to teach themselves RC with the benefit of flying full scale. I believe that a full scale pilot having an understanding of aerodynamics and flight characteristics is nothing but beneficial when it comes to flying RC. These are little planes, but they still are airplanes. They both stall the same and recover the same. They have the same tendencies when it comes to slow flight and crosswinds.
I can't dissagree more. I am an ATP, CFI, CFII, MEI and the worst students of rc I have ever had were the full scale pilots. They can't get themselves out of the cockpit and fly from the ground. Never had one correlate it. They make good pilots when it is all said and done, but training them has always been more difficult. Not impossible by any means, just more difficult.