Hi Mark, Maybe my statement was misleading but not on purpose. It took two or three hours of flight time for me to learn to fly RC well enough to take off and land, and I still am not a flier to brag about but with RC when I made mistakes there was time to recover. There is more to learn with RC. Up, down, right, left, etc. also as with control line up and down are the opposite when you are upside down, and left becomes right and right becomes left as you come toward yourself.
There really is more to learn to fly RC but with buddy boxes and simulators it can be learned without lose of aircraft. There’s less to learn with control line but reaction time can be much less time.
But in all honesty without an instructor it is almost impossible to learn RC. Where as if your are willing to build and rebuild in control line you can learn on your own.
With RC I had an instructor, with CL I learned on my own without any help except the little advice the kit gives you which is not near enough.
So RC may be harder but you usually have a helper, but with CL you are usually on your own, and I think that is why CL is hard to learn. As I said if there was a buddy box or a simulator CL would be much easier to learn.
This is just my opinion based on my experiences.
The hardest thing for me to leaen on RC was when coming at yourself to level the plane out push the stick toward the wing tip that is lowest to level the plane out.