I learned R/C helis just after getting my PPL about 16 years ago. It was part of a personal plot of mine to do some test flying of a rotary wing UAV, and my plot even worked. My first R/C heli was an old Kyosho concept 30. I still have it. Got out of it for years, with marriage and kids there was no time. But I just got into indoor RC electric helis, still a boatload of fun and I can fly them in the basement after the wife & kids are asleep.
-- IFMU