Not at all. A couple of the best scale models I've seen have never been flown. One, of some local historical interest, hangs in an airport; the other is a model of a plane the builder used to own and he doesn't want to risk it. My club once had a member who buit a lot and hardly ever flew. Before ARFs were as numerous and as good as they are now he sold a lot of models. Hard to compete with ARF pricing today, though.