You guys have inspired me to take another look at shelling out some money for the real sim. Plus my last 2 crashes would've almost paid for it.

I hate the sim and I think it is because I was just using the keyboard (no TX) and I don't have a great  PC monitor either. I just seemed to get bored with it , can't stand doing video games either.

My last crash has really got me down lately , it was my best (at least my nicest looking and flying) plane. I feel ok now that I have a replacement on the way. The weather has also got me down big time. I might as well go ahead and spend some bucks and practice. The weather is only getting worse. I am reconsidering getting the full version of realflight because I like it and it may just match many of my planes.