Ge Force, I'll relate my experience learning how to fly and see what you think. I was given four airplanes and all the flight equipment by a friend who knew he would never use it again. I liked the looks of the little Tri-Pacer, so a different friend who flew offered to buddy cord me on it. On the first flight, he said I was doing fine and quit watching. I flew it into the setting sun and he couldn't take over in time to save it. I got mad and decided to learn without an instructor. After crashing two more trainers, I decided to get the Real Flight G-2 simulator. About 100 hours later, and after flying every plane on the simulator, I tried it again with a new trainer. It was so easy this time, I moved on to a Four Star 60 soon after. I honestly feel if I had done the 100 hours on the sim first, it would have had good success flying the first time with a high wing trainer without any instruction. The G-2 will not help you with proper plane set-up, engine tuning and the like, but that's where RCU comes in.