[xhroot]

There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience.

Here:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/pro...

And outcome:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35915547&p...

[asdfman123]

There's nothing magic about flying. At the end of the day it's relatively simple.

The difficult part is being absolutely certain you're trained well enough to not crash the thing.

[robscallsign]

... and trained enough to handle any possible combination of inflight emergency, equipment failure, change of weather, safetly handle any last minute directive or change by ATC, etc.