RE: USB Joystick as a controller?
This is why i don't like training real pilots. You just need to step back. forget everything you know about real planes except the physics and start over. If you go in with the mentality, I fly real planes so these toys are child play then you'll have a hard time with it. It works really nice the other way around, flying models then getting into a real plane and learning but it doesn't work very well this way
Your at a different perspective, you don't have the seat in pants feeling and no wealth of information in front of you. It's not want you wanna hear but what can I say?