J3, no, because I paid for my flight training, and I make a living doing it (and the Beaver thing). I did not pay for my RC instruction, no one is trying to make a living doing it (at least in my area), and it is something I enjoy. Those reasons are enough for me to hope that no one will pay for RC instruction.

Let's look at it a different way. A 172 rents for 100 per hour and instructor fee is 25 on top of that. So the instructor fee is 20% of the operating cost. If we transfer that to RC, the instructor fee will be something like 15 cents per flight. Full size instruction fees are only a small percentage of the total cost, and you know that. Besides, I give instruction to my friends for free, and at the field it doesn't take much for me to take an hour or two out of my day to help the beginners.

Now J3, I ask, if you had the choice between paying some guy at the field to learn to fly your toy plane or not paying some guy at the field to learn to fly your toy plane, which option would you choose? We already went over the FACT that paid instructors are not necessarily better.