As a pilot, I'd say that for learning how to fly it's near to useless, except if you have a really good setup with force feedback and similar. The first time I

As a pilot, I'd say that for learning how to fly it's near to useless, except if you have a really good setup with force feedback and similar. The first time I took off in a pipercub, I had thousands of simulator hours behind me (arguably way older than fly sim 2022), and I don't think I handled the plane better than someone with no experience, it was a new surprising feeling all the way. But. For instrument training, multi tasking, navigation and radio, fly simulators give you the real thing, it's a really nice tool for that. You can have replica of the whole instruments with very realistic rendering and this helps a lot. For radio, there are a lot of pro air nav controllers that hang around VATSIM and you can have the real thing from your PC.