Thanks for the words of encouragement, I appriciate it, as far as depth perception goes maybe thats the biggest thing that the sim lacks, the biggest problem Im having is finding my way back to the runway to land (lining up the plane with the runway), so I pretty much just land in the grass. Maybe thats a depth perception problem, but at this point Im not worried about that, Im sure the instructor will advise me on that. While I've never flown a real RC plane I know enough about it to realize that it's an aquired skill that can only be learned by lots of time and lots of practice.
Paul