Before doing my PPL licence (around a year ago)
msfs was out and I wanted to try it out. (even though my instructors said it was not VFR worthy).
So I took a real flight plan that we were taught at school.
I built and spent the whole flight with real technics using an official VNC chart and kept the ‘ingame VFR chart’ out.
Worked the whole thing using an E6B and stayed away from the pause and options.
Must say that was in a 152 with no GPS.
Yes there was no ‘real life’ emotions behind that flight but at school they work to bring pilots to a very high level of situational awareness.
I admit I was swetting behind my desk keeping that plane straight (with no autopilot).
Knowing the impact of the movements of the plane also helps.
Just imagine you’re 100 feet below and kinda rock the commands to go back up 100 feet.
The barf meter could go up very quickly.
It brings me to another item on my wishlist for MSFS, a Hardcore mode. and that would imply everything we could actually bring to this game. 