So, what your saying is: Holding a small box in your hands that has small toggles, levers and switches sticking out of it, at various locations, can only be like flying a real airplane if the toggles, levers and switches are arranged in one particular way, then?

I fly Mode One! I fly Mode One, because that's the way the guys who taught me to fly, flew. They flew this way because when they transitioned from reed transmitters to digital proportional transmitters (the current type of radio) this was the easiest configuration for them to fly with. Reed transmitters used toggle switches to control the signal sent to the airplane. The toggle switches were spring loaded left/right or up/down center off switches. If the reed transmitter had eight channels, it could have 4 switches, one for Aileron, one for Elevator, one for Rudder and one for Throttle. The switches produced an all or nothing movement at the airplane. Full up, neutral; or, full down, for the elevator. To get a smooth-gentle turn the thumbs had to blip the switches on and off quickly. So, to be able to use the elevator and ailerons simultaneously, the flyer needed be able blip two switches at the same time, use both thumbs to get the job done. Hence the separation of the Aileron and Elevator in Mode One.

Being a Mode One flyer, I feel that this mode has much to offer. It has fallen out of favor over the last 30 years here in the US Soon all of the last Mode One flyers will be dead! Then there will only be you Mode Two flyers left. Then, you can all go home to your nice little houses made of Ticky Tacky and you’ll all be just the same! (Thanks Pete!) Seriously; however, the current worlds best R/C Pilot flys Mode One, so it is a viable option!