ORIGINAL: Stick 40
You'll find landing the Sim is harder than the real thing,
Not sure I can agree with this, I have never heard of anyone being able to land or take off a real RC plane easier than the Sim's. I just trained a guy and he thought he could start taking off and landing because he could do it on the sim's. But when it came to his first RC trainer , he found it was a lot faster and harder than the sim's.
I will also say , try and get a instructer to help you get started and set the plane up right ( strighten the sim out also, it will help you ).
Taking off was a lot easier on the Sim than the real deal, but when you're learning you fly a lot further out generally and on a small screen made it hard to judge exactly where the plane was and speed and just found I was landing my SuperCub easier than what at that time was a dot on the simulator and hard to judge it to land at perfectly at your feet where you could easily see it. I did start flying a plane in a huge area which I'm sure made it easier as well as I didn't have to pin point it onto a small runway and the Super Cub does just float down.
Now I fly 3D planes 3 ft out on the Sim it's simple even if you want to harrier land.