Mr maddox. Maby A2A is someone to talk to??

[nearmiss]

MSFT FSX or FS2004 is a flight simulator, not a combat flight simulator.

The enjoyment from a flight simulator is in all the detailed flying requirements.

If you are a real world pilot you can actually do check flights with the FSX and almost verbatim fly a hop in the sim as you would in real life. You can setup flight plans in FSX that you can fly in real life aircraft. You can use actual real world navigation, charts, procedures,etc.

I do IL2 air combat for pleasure not to get all involved in the details of flying.

If you have plans to be a real world pilot the FSX or FS2004 would not be a waste of time. There is so much to learn, especially flying instruments.