ORIGINAL: bruce88123
Yep, RC is tougher. No seat of the pants, no instruments, no visual cues out the windshield, no wing buffet just before a stall. You'll find a lot of us that either still fly or used to fly full scale and I'd bet 98% will tell you RC is tougher. Oh yeah, no auto-pilot either although I never had that luxury. Not even a wing-leveler.
I know this isn't the topic of the thread, but I disagree. The power loading on a full-scale airplane is much different and the consequences of a stall are much more severe. You don't have gobs of extra power with full size airplanes. Full scale airplanes take much more specialized knowledge to operate. Flying a full-size airplane requires the pilot to think much further ahead and sloppiness is simply not permitted. Take a look at the current Private Pilot Syllabus. We don't teach a quarter of those relevant concepts at our R/C club. Those concepts that we do teach do not even approach the depth of information found in real-world training.
I find them different. Apples and oranges.