Let's look at the flip side of this scenario. I went up in a friends two seat Pitts. I had sat in a cockpit once when I was about twelve. He let me fly it for a while and I had no problem at all. He said he could tell I was using rudder to correct for the cross wind and that I was very smooth with the stick. He was very surprised when I told him it was really my first time flying a real plane and told me that I should get my license because I was one of the best first timers he had flown with. To me it was just like flying an RC plane, pressure on the controls not really moving them and I had a feel for the aerodynamics of flight from RC as well. The main difference is you are always in the cockpit, unlike RC.