Just to note, Flightgear is open source and free. It uses a pretty good flight dynamics engine and the basic aircraft are modeled accurately. The Cessna 172 h

Just to note, Flightgear is open source and free. It uses a pretty good flight dynamics engine and the basic aircraft are modeled accurately. The Cessna 172 handles just like a real one. For free, it's great. It's let down, if you can call it that, is the eye-candy is not as good.