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Originally Posted by PGT  I played Flight simulator for a few years, just messing around and stuff, before beginning my PPL training. My instructor was extremely impressed with my flying on the discovery flight, and even during the first few hours.
I've also been playing Gran Turismo games on and off, the first day at the track (I was 16, had my license for 2 months) the instructor was very pleased with my driving.
Maybe I'm just a natural and driving and flying  but I do believe both of those helped me, now it can only do so much.
One thing with FS that you have to be careful about is that it causes it's players (simmers?) to stare at the cockpit gauges and not outside. I have also heard to watch out for those FS types because they get in a real cockpit and think they know everything there is. |
Once you start flying try to leave most of the Flight Sim stuff at home. Its a whole different ball game. When I instructed as soon as a student told me he was big into the flight sim world I knew it was going to be a "i knew that already" type of student. As said above start to read the airplane flying handbook, AIM, etc... and play flight sim for fun. It will help in certain ways... Also really try to get down to the local FBO and just talk to people. You would be surprised by how many plane owners would be happy to take you up and show you the ropes.