Gamer for life! (Althought not was much recently since Pete v2.0 was introduced.)

On a more serious note, I have no doubt that my years of gaming reduced my learning curve for flying RC significantly. After flying in many sims and online games such as Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat, Pacific Fighters, etc, I found it very easy to retain my orientation and make the plane go where I wanted it to.

Nothing beats training and an instructor by any means, but gaming certainly helped me on my way.