hey Charley thanks for the post. I was just going to ask about the exact same thing and you answered a step in front of me.
I've just started using MSFS a bit, and I've found it's virtually impossible to use the keyboard as rudder control (so gotta leave auto-rudder on). and you're right about the trimming, using keyboard for trimming is quite annoying too (takes me like 30 seconds to trim everytime). I'm planning to re-assignm the trim control to my mouse wheel and see if that helps.
but anyway, back on topic, so what are some of the bad habbit I should avoid while trying to learn on a flight sim, and what are the good ones to develope? I probably won't be able to start real flight training anytime soon (going away for school pretty soon), but I'll prepare as much as I can with the sim.
It'll probably take some motivation to keep up at it though, heh, I actually don't even LIKE flight sims... lol. I'm doing it solely for learning purpose. If I wasn't trying to get a PPL I probably would never touch MSFS...