I cant believe that nobody has mentioned this. The airplane is judged while in the air. Yes people look at the planes on the ground and yes the pilot sitting on a small cross brace may not look real but as someone stated in this post, the plane should look scale from a standoff distance. However most of the planes are looked at while flying, I have some old pics of my first third scale and even photos taken that werent close in, the pic looks rediculous with no pilot. Personally I like a pilot that looks somewhat scale in all of my planes. I hate the "toy" look when people put homer simpson dolls or whatever in them. freestyle flying may not be totally scale but on the other hand the full scale guys are doing what they can to achieve this type of flight. Actually it probably could be done if someone had enough money to to use the same technology in their full scale as there is in say F1 racing, thats not cheap. Anyway low and slow with no pilot in the cockpit is really odd looking, especially in photos.