To me, the landing part of G2 is far different because I cannot attain the depth of field. Sure it has great 3D graphics, but I cannot gage the planes attitude as I can in real life. I had the same problem when landing with the MS Flight sim compared to landing a real plane.

What is really helping using G2 is the aerobatics. I can do things on the sim to refine control and work on patterns that I couldn't do in real life.