That SAFE and AS3X stuff is amazing. I learned RC the old fashioned way. Drink a beer, make a flight with an instructor, pop open another beer and repeat. On my 9th flight I soloed. On my 11th flight I hit a barbed wire fence. The club I joined made you build a trainer so you could repair it.
Did the same with my first heli. No stabilizing stuff. The new quadcopter drones will fly themselves. To make the drones more interesting guys are putting a camera on them and racing by viewing only what the camera sees.