I've seen a kid once who took the sticks on a buddy box and it came instantly to him. He took off on his second flight (still on the buddy box) and landed. His 4th flight less than an hour later was his solo. He did it with a second hand Goldberg Falcon 56. Within a week he was combatting with us. We were amazed, and he didn't think it was all that. The only time he crashed was when his old second hand battery pack failed and he had a flyaway. Other than that he never crashed from pilot error, not once. Then he met a girl, left for OTS, and quit the hobby. It's too bad, he could have been one of the best.

Even this kid though, needed training time. Yes...he learned almost instantly, and was a natural...but...he still made initial mistakes on his first training flight that would have put him in the dirt had he not asked for someone to help him the first time.