mrjbernard: It has been my experience that being able to fly a full scale, i.e. real people carrying plane, does not help RC pilot skills much. The pilot may have a better understanding of the flight dynamics, but they still must learn to fly RC planes just like everyone else. While the physics of flight is the same, your feedback is not. You get no instruments with RC and your visual clues are totally different. I won't speak for Crashem, but I think that may be what he was implying.

13yearold: The SE is an easy build. Don't bother with the mods you may have seen on RCU, enlarged rudder, etc. The SE has some design issues that all but prevent level knife edge flight. Many wrongly enlarge the rudder thinking it will improve knife edge. The problem with SE's poor knife edge performance is the lack of fuselage area in front of the CG, not the rudder. I know it is tempting to make mods, but just build it exactly as the plans indicate and you'll have a nice flying plane.