Dude, microsoft flight simulator is an awesome training tool to practice procedural stuff, but in reality you can't get any stick and rudder skills from it because the aircraft performance is soo unrealistic. It's saving me so much money on instrument stuff though, you'd be suprised how great it is when you pull out your favorite approach and fly it on flight sim, then you go do it for real and see the simularities! You still can't count it for logging purposes though.