A few thoughts…
I am an avid simmer by heart. I enjoy taking time after a long day at work to put in a few flight hours as a relaxing activity. I work at a financial institution where every hour has to be accounted for! In addition, I don’t get to travel as much as I would like to because of my job position set up, but the opportunities for vicarious travel abound with Microsoft Flight Simulator. The experience becomes greatly enhanced when the perfect add-on sceneries are included. I think I know my way around the Seattle-Tacoma Intl., and Portland International airports pretty well now – even though I have never flown into any of them in real life. I am now familiar with the South Florida coast line and the Islands of The Bahamas. This makes my real flight trips between South Florida and the Caribbean that much more exciting as I can pinpoint exactly where I am at any given time. Of course if the cloud cover makes a VFR flight difficult, the default Garmin GPS always comes in handy!