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Hello everyone,
I recently began my training for private pilot and using a cessna 152 and 172, I was wondering if purchasing flight yoke and pedals would help and if anyone can direct me in the right path to purchasing a used one rather than a new set up. Thank you for your help

I would be careful using a PC flight sim to train for the PPL. It's just different enough that it might cause negative learning.

Those devices can be useful for instrument training, for practicing IFR procedures in IMC conditions by reference solely to instruments.

But for maneuvers and landings, it's just too different from the seat-of-the-pants and visual references in the real airplane. Simulators that provide that kind of fidelity cost millions, and they still are not quite realistic.

I agree, don't use a home sim to learn to fly, but it can be good for learning instrument flying. When you get to the cross country portion of your training, you can use it to familiarize yourself with the route and destination before you actually do the cross country; and you don't need the full sim equipment for that.

I agree^^^ it can be helpful for procedural things such as IR or XC procedures, but not the physical skill at your level, I wouldn't spend the money at this point.

Like the majority, I also agree that a home SIM is not necessary for basic skills. However, it will aid greatly when practicing for your instrument rating. In order to get a SIM to actually be a decent training aid for other situations, it can take a quite a bit of money. Plus, I've witnessed many people getting addicted to their at-home SIMs and spending thousands of dollars.

I recommend just chair flying, a cheap SIM setup for instruments, and plenty of aviation tutorial videos.

We've found this to be true at our academy as well.

The only time we use sims in private is just at the beginning of the ground course as a sort of enhanced chair flight just to demonstrate what everything does and what it kinda looks like. That is in a Redbird though, not the more basic PC ATD's.

Great. It's good to learn the flying instrument for the private pilot training.
All the best for your future.