I was given a chance to fly a Trainer yesterday at the club... I can say the simulator time paid off.. to a point..

I noticed right off the bat that the controls would not recenter near as fast as the simulator, and that there are a few spots where it is hard to see what attitude you are in.

If I was in a slow ascending R/H bank there is one attitude where it is very hard for me to tell if the plane is coming to me or going away.

If the plane is almost overhead I seem to be unable to tell if it is nose high or low.

I also found a few spots on the field where I had to actually put in a lot of down elevator to make the plane stop climbing.. it happened in the same spots every time and the only thing I can think of is there must have been some kind of thermals there or something.

I also discovered that when I get too excited I tend to put in the reverse control of what I want.. so I just took a break when that started to happen.

Had a blast though, can't wait to get my own plane done.