What you learned in the F-18 is what every (sim) pilot should learn first:
How to fly wit nothing more than a stick, the rudder and the throttle!
And learn to understand how all these work together and affects the 4 forces of flight.
In fact there are much more than these 4, but let’s keep things simple in the beginning.
Still working on the rudder. Part of the problem is the rudder is so responsive that I have trouble controlling the aircraft with the keyboard. I really am tempted to get a more simulator type setup.
Well that, and I’m just not mentally coordinated yet to use it well. Just like I don’t usually pitch and roll at the same time but I can.