Simulators are great for learning 'finger memory'.

You know, that bit of experience with anything that teaches you to do something without thinking.

Most guitarists, for example, can automatically finger a chord if they have a familiar guitar in their hands, but have to really think to explain how to finger that same chord if they don't have a guitar in their hands at the time.

One thing a simulator really helps with is the orientation needed when the plane is coming towards you on approach to landing. You start saying to yourself 'push the aileron stick to 'prop up'' the drooping wing when the plane is coming towards you, but, after you do that a few times it happens automatically.

Try flying any model in G3 round a well defined, precise circuit, landing every time and trying to touch down in the middle of the runway about 20 to 30 feet before it passes you. Once it becomes automatic to get it precise you can transfer that to the real thing.

Good luck! It'll happen right in the end!

-David C.