sims?
Some people are just talented. We had one guy who soloed at 4.5 hours and did his licence at the legal minimum followed by his AFI rating ditto.
At a deadstick spot landing competition a few years later he asked which wheel they were measuring from as the mains were about 6 feet apart! Sadly this was not a wind up as his total error from 4 landing was 2 feet!
Never seen to wash his plane never mind wax it he was just good at what he did.
GIT!