I’ve been simming since sublogic flight simulator 1.0 also around 1982. v1 on the Apple IIe and then v2.0 on the C64, MS FS v3 PC, v4 PC & Mac, v5.0a, v5.1, FSFW95, FS98, CFS, CFS2, CFS3, FS2000 Pro, FS2002 Pro, FS2004 ACOF, FSX Beta Tester, FS11 Design Advisory Board (Before MSFT killed off ACES), Microsoft ESP, Microsoft Flight, a couple of alternate replacement sims, Prepar3d v1 - v6, contracted and wrote game design docs on Dovetail Games Flight Simulator Flight School (FSFS) and Flight Simulator World (FSW). Those docs I believe ended up at Asobo and almost all of it is in MSFS. 
Love what the Asobo team has done.
Also a real world pilot and grew up with parents working key postions in Airlines in Australia.