I definitely agree the real environment is more challenging in a holistic sense. What I meant is that in a real airplane, you have the advantage of things like

I definitely agree the real environment is more challenging in a holistic sense. What I meant is that in a real airplane, you have the advantage of things like G-force, force feedback from the reversible controls, stall buffet, the sound of the airstream on the windscreen, complete peripheral vision, etc, which combine to make the actual "manipulating the controls to make the airplane do what you want" part of flying easier.