jaymark6655
Plinker
I started flying with FSX when I was taking lessons (flew MSFS 4.0 back in the day and what ever version their century of flight was). It had the exact aircraft I was flying with same radio stack, so it really took my chair flying to the next level. I have always heard that X-Plane is better, but I couldn't beat the price of FSX. With the new 2020, I had to get that. Based on my flying a actual C172S and their sim version, I cannot figure out what short coming it must have over X-Plane. Sim is great, but you have to remember to not go in there and just goof off flying jets and upside down and buzzing bridges and buildings, it can be done for fun, but don't expect that to speed up training. Also realize that sims don't allow you to feel coordinated flight and doing so requires you to look at the turn coordinator, but in VFR flight the instructor is going to want your eyes outside and sim flyers can fall into the trap of looking at the instruments only instead of where the horizon intersects the wind screen to know if they are at a 30 deg bank instead of 45 deg.