A sim helps with basic stick movements. It does not teach you how to steer on a grass runway. Also the takeoffs on the sim are stupid easy. Hit the throttle, steer for a few seconds and the plane is flying. You also can't get the big open view look at the field. I guarntee you wouldn't know how hi up to be, how fast or how far away to turn the plane to final to land. Having said that, there probably isn't much point in starting with a pure trainer. I would suggest an Avistar. It has a fast wing and is fairly aerobatic. It can be used as a trainer with your sim experience and can be very agile if you know what you are doing. The landins are also reasonably slow. If you really want to go a low wing to start with I would say get the 4*. It has a very wide speed range and will land as slow as any trainer. The Tiger2 is a very good plane but it will land a bit faster and may be a bit much even for someone with sim stick time. [8D]