Definately stimulated an interest for the "real thing."
Was told in the vey ealy stages of PPL training that they would "get me into bad habits."
Initially, I didn't listen, and I did find that my flying suffered when I'd been "simming" so eventually sacked it. It just didn't have the same feel as real flying.
Did revert back to it for basic instrument training- good for learning how to use the VOR and thinking out of the box whilst "flying". (Intersecting radials etc).
Can't be bovered anymore