I had a near flight experience yesterday:-)

I had to wait for 4 hours for something and decided to go to the RC airfield and spend those 4 hours watching planes. I had thought they were doing combat with streamers but I was wrong, that is next week. So I sat there watching the planes fly and when I only had about an hour left one of the instructors asked me if I wanted to try and fly his 10-year-old Aerostar trainer. I told him I didn't want to crash his plane and might have to leave at any moment if my phone rang, but he said he wouldn't let me crash his plane and didn't mind if I had to suddenly leave. So we set everything up, went to the runway, got the and got the plane in the air. He flew it around the field twice while he explained some things too me and then handed me the controller. He had me bank into a left turn... and my phone rang, haha. Oh well, I kind of want to learn on a simulator first anyway:-)

This guy had his own way of training new pilots that was pretty cool. He doesn't like buddy boxes, instead he has a controler with a wire mounted on the right stick that hooks around where your fingers are and then has a little wood handle above your fingers that he can grab at any moment to make corrections. It was a pretty ingenious little setup.

Try to work with the instructor first. Ask him what you should practice on the sim. You could possibly teach yourself bad habits that an instructor has to "break" later.