Trust me you did not waste your money. Once you fly a trainer and solo then the next step is to use the sim to learn new manuvers then go try them out on the real thing.

In most cases the SIM is not that close to the real thiing. They do help quite allot, but as you will find out just flying a trainer, it's quite a bit different. If you crash on G3 you get the plane back and away you go, if you crash the real thing you are now fixing it.

A sim cannot teach the fine art of trimming your plane beyond the radio trims, tuning the engine, chosing the correct prop and a host of others.

Please start out with a trainer. Do your solo then go for the more aerobatic types. If you want to really train on a low wing aerobatic type then at least get a SIG 4 Star 40 or a Tiger 2. They can be used as a trainer with the right instructor by your side, but all more aerobatic low wing planes are the point and fly variety. This means that whatever input the plane gets from you it will hold that input until you give it another. On most any trainer, it will always try to right itself. This helps allot when you get disoriented.

Be patient, it will come and when it does you'll be glad you started out slowly