allendc,
What are you going to do with your sim when you get it built...personal use...publicly available ?
A of G,
Yes, it's fun to to look back and see airplanes you flew appear in the public arena (some in books). Seeing one become a sim is particularly entertaining. Of course, MANY people flew N9070U after I did: 57,000 airframe hours !
You'll get to do the Big Look Back some day as most of us do.