well that's good to know.. heh. I'm just concerned with PPL right now and that's probably as far as I'll go (not planning to make this a career, just for fun). I don't even know what IMC/IR is...
so I guess I should just go with MSFS then. The 2004 has the virtual cockpit where you can turn knobs/switches with the mouse, although I'm not sure how well it'd run on my 1.3GHz system.
oh btw I wanted to ask what kind of hardware setup you guys use. do you just use a simple joystick with keyboard rudder control? or is it any better to get a rotatable joystick and use that as rudder control