Thanks for the clarification! Okay. This question is so much more than VFR. In fact, very little of it is about VFR. I had written up a whole thing on VFR before and then stopped and decided to ask for clarification on the question first.
I’ll quickly answer one of your questions. This is C3PO 
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(I know you were joking! 
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I’ll answer another question: ATC is not very realistic right now. In fact, there is a very long thread right now about it. This thread could easily detail and turn into an ATC thread, but we’ll just say right now that it’s not very realistic and it requires a huge amount of effort to overhaul.
I can try to answer more of these questions when I get to a computer (instead of my phone), unless others answer them here first.