RE: real scale flight
Here's a [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pKk9KCVpIA]video[/link] of the maiden flight of a Ziroli 1:8 DC-3 - turned out to be a sad day. I really feel sorry for these guys, but have to say that the too short flight looks exactly like a stalled flight in the simulator, that wavering and uncontrollability and tilting over to one side or the other.
So the simulator can't be completely wrong, that's one lesson learned. Another one is to never forget that there's something like down elevator. As was said before in this thread, we can not feel what happens to our model, but we can see.
Here's a good source of all sorts of [link=http://www.douglasdc3.com/]DC-3 information[/link], including flight beahvior, landing procedures, ...