I find its good for instrument stuff primarly. Im working on my currency in a sim (legal for IFR stuff) and Im finding that if I spent a little more time on 04 with approach plates, it would make it a quicker transistion to learn how to do that stuff again. I have a Dell E1705 laptop with a flight stick pro joy stick and it runs fine on that. I would get other aircraft though, becasue most of them on there suck. Anyways, PM if you have any questions.