Years ago I tried to learn R/C on my own and never really succeded. I gave it up A few years later I tried it again this time joining a club and useing one of their instructors. This time I learned and eventually became an instructor myself.
I am now going to take on a helicopter. About a month or so ago while at the hobby shop picking up all the goodies to make my Scadue 30 fly I bought the G2 simulator. I have found a local instuctor to help with the setup and the actual flying........when the time comes. I have tried to get in about 30-45 mins of sim time every other day since getting the G-2. I can do a respectable nose in hover, have very little problems making the heli go where I want it to and recently tried a little wild stuff inverted flight and rolls None of this happened without a generous use of the spacebar, each time would have been an expensive repair job or a new heli And the plane are fun to fly too!

Gene