That's a little harsh, PiperBoy!
Before I had my first PPL lesson I sat in a small classroom while the instructor drew a cartoon aircraft on the blackboard (remember those...?)
He asked me if I knew what the elevators did, so I told him that I had built and flown R/C and free flight models since I was a spog. "Oh, good" he said "It is always much easier to teach an aeromodeller to fly".
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