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That's been the reason behind many a question I have posed in these forums.
How much like an actual aircraft can a sim be? I know huge allowances must be made for the lack of G forces, lack of visual disturbances, lack of basic feel of the controls, lack of danger and so on.
However, in the strictest terms of the aircraft behaving how a real plane would when one thing or another is done to the sim controls, how close can it be.

I hope to find out shortly, in so far as I have an intro flight coming up. From what I hear, I may or may not get a reasonable go at the controls. Some have said they were permitted to "basically" take off and land the plane, by the instructor. Who knows.
Will an instructor who comes across a mature person with an obvious brain, who claims to have had extensive experience with Computerised Sims, be inclined to allow this person some freedom (within reason, of course). Or will most consider this person the novice with no idea and treat them with more trepidity because of a perceived over-confidence? 

Apart from a knowledge and familiarity with the gauges and their purpose, is there really any advantage?

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That sounds like a low-level wind shear; potentially a dangerous condition......hopefully you've already flared and are within a few feet of touchdown when you experience this! Just to be safe, I'd always carry a little extra airspeed on base and final approach when there were gusty conditions ....you can always "go around" if you happen to float too long down the runway.

Btw, there are numerous sites that explain in detail the aerodynamic principles and flight characteristics of all categories of aircraft (not to mention by type & class.... ad nauseum!) I'll list a few of them here; they cover stalls, spins, and wind shear.........

     http://www.whittsflying.com/index.html
     http://www.mpaviation.com/lesson9.htm
     http://www.infodotinc.comweather3/6-15.htm

Figure it's better just to check these and many other very informative links, than my attempting some long-winded thesis on the subjects......regurgitating what I've learned from flight manuals, instructors, and other texts (and many of these sites!).

For those interested, READ UP(!)......then you can write your own Doctoral's dissertation on aerodynamics!

so thats why i got no response from bernie ecclestone when i emailed him asking to be a test driver saying i could win the championship on the official F1 game

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The mind boggles.
Not much chance of me seeing the ad so I won't worry about it.

Guys if you have not seen realairsimulations Siai-Marchetti SF.260 it spins perfectly it will wind up one you if your knot careful I have that happen to me many times and it takes me almost 2 turns to get it to stop rotating but it is a blast to fly there web site is www.realairsimulations.com I highly recomend you check it out the price is 25.00 dollars USD but it is worth every penny that is if you like flying payware I fly both payware and freeware I just downloaded from flightsim.com the turbo 182RG super skylane over 500kts cruise that I think is highly unlikely.   It will go over 200 kts at 80% power I tried it at 75% power and it did 204kts not to bad right

Andrew, glad to hear that you are enjoying flying now, obviously the second flight went better than the first. Keep at it

Mark

Good luck Brensec. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Maybe you should get all the whinging Poms to line up and complain that the weather is too wet for Australia, a kind of negative aura to make it sunny?

Ozzy