No, the simulator is not going to make it "easy and natural" to fly the real thing. I've posted this thought in other threads, but I'll repeat it here. As an instructor I see a lot of people show up at the field that have become "aces" on their simulators at home. In all honesty, I wish that people would wait to start on the simulator until they have at least talked to an instructor. The simulators are great for reenforcement training, meaning they help you practice and reinforce what you already know. If you are trained properly the simulator is going to make you better at what you have learned. And if you haven't been properly trained then they simulator is just going to make you better at being bad. The students that I have taught that spent a lot of time on a simulator before they show up at the field have all had to be "un-taught" before I could start training them, which in some cases DOUBLED the amount of time it took them to solo that it would have taken otherwise.

If you plan on using a simulator and then try to fly a plane without help of an instructor, I will almost assure that you will end up crashing your plane. There are a lot of things that the simulator isn't going to help you with at all. That's where an instructor comes in.

This is a great hobby, and I love to see new people get in to it. But I urge you to do it correctly. Please get an instructor and get proper training. After you have started with the instructor I know that working on the simulator will shorten the time it takes you to solo, but it can't replace the instructor.

Hope this helps

Ken