If you are using it to try to learn to fly with I don't think it will make a lot of difference. Once you learn the basic stick movements, one flight at the field will teach you more than 3 weeks on the sim. You just can't get the large perspective at the field on a small computer screen. The easy ground handlying on the sim screen doesn't prepare you for steering on a rough grass field. What did help me was learning to turn back before I got the message that said "your plane has flown away"!