Getting confused with ATC order...Violation?

Nomen Nescio writes:

Good analogy, I've seen a few (very few) actors who are pretty good at pretending
to fly a plane. Put them in a real one, and they're in deep ****.

They are performing the inverse of simulation, but are using similar skills.
In their case, they are the primary locus of the simulation, rather than the
environment around them. For people using flight simulators, the simulator is
the locus, and they adapt to it.