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I have MS Flight simulator. I have many hundred hours on this simulator. One of my favorite flights is to take off a 777 from runway 14R at Chicago Ohare, get up to 3000AGL make a quick right turn to 265, an immediate left to 130 and you can immediately land on the ILS at Midway. All that without looking out the window. Just instruments. Try it for a break. You can make the whole flight in under 15 minutes while sweating off 5 pounds. If you do this quickly you have just jogged over 20 miles to line up with Midway airport, which is almost directly south of Ohare but the runways which face the same way are offset by 20 miles west. Be quick or ATC sends you all the way counterclockwise around Ohare into Wisconsin. You actually have to anticipate the controller's instructions a bit and keep your airspeed below 200 kts or you can't make it. You can't swing the plane fast enough.

But thats operated with a joystick and a mouse. I was lost in Mode 2. That's what most people use here in the US. That's an R/C control box with 2 joy sticks. The left stick is throttle and rudder. The right stick is elevator and aileron. I had no experience on those controls. And flying is like riding a bicycle. Hand/eye coordination burned into muscle memory.

So I got a RealFlight simulator with a Tx interlink. Thats a Mode 2 (see paragraph above) transmitter box that hooks up to your computer. I only got it last week so I haven't much time on this simulator. I've only got about 2-3 hours flying around the different locations until I decided on one I liked. Then I put in about 30 hours (I'm semi retired) in doing almost nothing but touch and goes and dead stick practice while changing the wind every few hours.