My experience in trying to use pc sim experience in real flying, albeit limited, is that it's not bad for "flying by numbers" scenerios.
I practiced some radio nav in flight sim and found it worked a treat for me doing it in an actual aircraft - basically I'd already got used to "picturing" my VOR tracks, twiddling the OBS, dialling up new beacons... that sort of logistical stuff isn't really much different between the sim and the real thing. (Except in the latter you do have a load of engine noise, RT, lookout to do etc, so you're a bit more hassled.)
Most PPL flying isn't the numbers stuff, but I reckon you'd have a better chance of flying an ILS than I would (my flying passion is aeros - no numbers at all!).
If you could get me to visual, I'd take over from there thanks...
