ORIGINAL: wcv38
I have never flown Mode 1. As a full scale flight instructor, I can tell you that learning Mode 1 while learning to fly full scale during or after is going to make it a more difficult as well as a lot more expensive. If you are up to the challenge to learning both that is one thing, but it seems more logical to stick to one thing.
I also am a full scale flight instructor and I dont see any problem with learning both. The sensory inputs and reactions to those inputs while flying model airplanes are so compleately different than full scale that you could say the same about learning piano at the same time. The theories of flight are the same but that is about as far as they can be compared. If you have a good flight instructor He/She sould be able to help you correlate the two with each other. Contrary to what some may think the physics of flight are identical, so the rules will be the same.