My point exactly!

It can be fun, especially to try things you'd never want to try in real
life, and it can be a good laugh when things go wrong. And I can see how
they can be a really useful tool in certain circumstances. But it's silly
to think that they're an ironclad indicator of skill for everything.

--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software

Michael there's no point in feeling bad at all. Here's an anecdote:

My primary instructor for the PPL has an aerobatic endorsement (or
whatever the technical name is) on her CFI cert. She has been doing
aerobatics for many years. I had used MSFS before taking lessons from
her. On our first flight she acted surprised and wanted to know how
long I'd been flying. It was all straight and level but I understood
things like the how the VOR stuff worked, how to trim, use the radios,
and that the throttle was the up/down control (ie, throttle back to
descend), etc. I told her I'd learned all that in the simulator. Later
she came to my house for dinner once, and for fun she wanted to try
the simulator. She couldn't do it at all, or course, because the
control inputs are completely different as was how you view "the world
outside". So she stalled out trying to land and crashed, she couldn't
do a snap roll "correctly", and the loop was impossible. The whole
time she just laughed her a$$ off.

To say that she was "humbled" by the simulator, or that she wasn't a
good pilot because she crashed trying to simulate landing with MSFS
would be utterly ridiculous and absurd.

She's a finest kind pilot in my view, a real character, and I can't
wait til later this spring when I will have some time because I'm
going to do some aerobatics training with her -- and I ain't even
considering her simulator "problems".

Simulated landing crashes don't count for jack!

(Maybe only if you're an ATP and the airline sends you off to
simulator training and you crash repeatedly -- something I bet rarely
or never happens. Hmm. Hey you airline pilots -- does anyone ever
"crash" in the real simulators? What happens, screen go blank?)