Weather or not you fly your your RC plane close to a stall depends on if its a scale type RC plane or one of these models that really don't fly like real airplanes or a scale type RC plane that is so overpowered that one does not have to fear a stall . As you say these RC pilots "if you can call them pilots" do fly close to a stall more than full scale pilots. I can tell you that RC pilots who fly scale type RC planes with scale powerplants don't fly near stall except with altitude or landing and taking off , the same way scale pilots are trained.The reason for that is saftey.Alot of people in this hobby who have advanced past trainers and are flying sport planes like Sticks,Four Stars and Stingers ect. are flying planes that have little in common with most scale airplanes because the wings on these planes will almost not stall at all, so why not fly near a stall ,if you do stall you are not going to pay a price. Sadly these same RCers overpower these planes to the point that really learning to fly is something they have never done. I guess if you never wish to learn how to fly, keep it up but let me give you a word of warning. One day you might wish to fly a warbird or say a Taylor Craft that has a scale type wing and a scale type power plant. If all youve been doing is flipty flops with your over powered not real airplane your gonna find yourself in a world of trouble when you have to fly your plane STRAIGHT down the runway for a good distance in order to rotate and fly it on a wing that will make you pay if you rotate to early. Your gonna be picking up wood chips if you get to slow on final . Sorry so long but my advice to a new person is learn to fly RC planes like real ones.The hotdog stuff is fun and ok but don't let that be the end of your learning curve God Bless Lee PS I hope I don't sound to harsh and judgemental because this has been my personal experience. I like so many learned how to fly a a basic 40 size trainer and then I began to fly the overpowered sport planes that are more responsive. Then I starting gaining interest in Scale type flying. After 3 years of muscle memory flying not real planes like Sticks, Stingers,Fourstars ect I bought me a Great Planes Taylor Craft with a 30 satio.It was then that I learned that I really did not know how to fly.My muscle memory was trained to give her full throttle and pull her up anytime I wished. Landing was get as slow as you wish and land on all three at once. Im grateful that vI have persevered and learned how to fly.It would have been much eaiser if I had learned the real stuff early. I also realize that some folks because of old age or physical ability can't fly scale type planes and thats fine but those who can should