Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC

bdl writes:

If you were in "real" IMC it's even worse (at least until you develop
some practice and learn to keep the picture in your head). Always
seems like ATC is telling you to do something just as you are in the
middle of something else.

I've already had that experience in simulation.

On VATSIM, you can communicate by voice or by text. I usually
communicate by text, simply because the sound quality is often so bad
for some controllers that I cannot make out what they are saying.
However, it is true that text is woefully unrealistic, and it also
makes it difficult or impossible to communicate during the most
critical phases of the flight, as one simply doesn't have time to type
(even fast typists like me).

When I listen to real ATC on liveatc.net, it sounds just as bad. The
quality problems aren't the same, but their magnitude is. I'm
surprised more aircraft aren't running into each other. I can only
hope that the audio quality is much better aboard the actual aircraft,
but I doubt it.

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