Weird, because afaik commercial and especially combat pilots train a lot in specialized simulators. Plenty of companies around make those simulators since the 8

Weird, because afaik commercial and especially combat pilots train a lot in specialized simulators. Plenty of companies around make those simulators since the 80s if not earlier, and they seemed to me to be more widely used than professional racing sims—if just for the price factor. I even know one company that makes ship bridge sims, employing fluid dynamics programmers.