The problem is NightOne, you have a negative opinion of the sims before you started using them. (Plus, am I the only one to find it wierd that he goes from complaining about price to buying 2 sims to use in the "comfort of his own home"?)

Then you have a bad flight, and blame it on the sim. It certainly isnt the inexperience of the pilot, so it must be the evil, overpriced sim.

You landed hard. It was you. It was not the sim. My first landing was is about a 10 mph 90 degree crosswind in a stock nexstar. Thats not an easy landing. I sat it down perfectly having never landed in anything other than a sim. Landing my first taildragger was much the same, i praticed in the sim for a week, then did it flawlessly. I learned to fly Helis, which is much more complicated than learning to fly a plane, in the sim, then bought a blade cp and was hovering on the 2nd charge, FF on the 3rd.

If you don't like the sims, then dont use them. But placing blame on a sim, when it was nothing more than pilot error, is almost slanderous, and you have no real data or information to back it up. If you're breaking 4 props in a day, or a weekend, or even a month, you dont need to be flying solo. I think in the 2 years I've been flying i've broken 3, and they all came from high-speed low passes (limbo)...Ive nicked them a few times froma mild landing or flipping the plane on the ground with the help of the wind (nexstar pilots know what im talking about)

Im not trying to lay into you, but accept the responsibility of your mistake, dont try to push it off on something unrelated.