That is an interesting thing to say.... for myself, The simulator has saved me money. I now am able to do things with the real model, because the virtual model allowed me to spend a fair amount of time developing the eye-hand coordination with NO RISK! I would in fact say that in the past 6 months since I have gotten the simulator, I have advanced my skilz ten fold over the previous 3 years!
At $15.00 a gallon, 7 flights per gallon, 18 minutes per flight, that adds up to about 2 hours of stick time per gallon....now divide the $250.00 for the sim by $15.00 per gallon... hmmmm... 16.7 gallons... times 2 hours per gallon... hmmm.... about a total of 33 hours of equivalent REAL MODEL sticktime for the dough I paid for the simulator..... I have logged 5 or 6 times that amount of stick time on the sim since I got it in October. .....That 33 hours of sticktime boils down to about 115 flights.... I am not sure that most people can go that many flights without a mishap.... so doing the math, and considering the risks, it is CO$TING YOU MORE TO NOT have a simulator..... now if you say it just isn't fun for you, OK... I certainly can't argue with that!

drive carefully!!