I think that's been done before, too, Jofm.
They don't offer the peripheral view or the "feel" of a real aeroplane, so they are nothing like the real thing in that regard. I can fly an SEP reasonably well, and land it safely. I can NOT land a PC sim safely - sometimes it survives, sometimes there's a smoking hole in the runway.
Where the sims do start to have some relevance is in instrument flight practice. In the real world, there's no peripheral vision anyway, so it works well for that. Once I've broken cloud at 200 feet on the ILS, the practice is over anyway so the landing bit is irrelevant.
I tried MSFS and X-Plane. No contest: X-Plane is far more realistic in terms of how the aircraft handles, instruments behave, etc. It's a bit less user-friendly to set up, but well worth the extra effort in my view.
The major objection to PC sims for those who are going to fly for real is that they teach you to fly "head in the cockpit". Lookout goes for the chop. That is, in my view, the major danger with using one.