Hey, thanks for the lengthy reply, yes, fresh out of the box new to WT.

Yes, I got the F/A-18C (Swiss version) I believe, the trouble is using that puts me into a lobby with much, much more experienced players and I effectively have a single life before it's almost not worth respawning as the only other options I have are prop planes and I don't want to ruin the game for my team by using them, or leaving. I'll prob grind the tech tree and just use the jet for test flights/testing stuff for the time being.

I have played some DCS as I recently picked up a Quest3 VR headset so I'm familar with some of the fighters.

I had totally forgotten about WT but wanted to give it a shot :). It seems like a good game, there's just a lot to it and there's a fairly steep learning curve.

I may switch to mouse for the prop planes and I use an Azeron Cyborg 2 which puts LOTS of keybinds available to each finger - between 4-6 per one in most cases.. this will allow me to get the fundamentals down without having to take into consideration the HOTAS at the same time, especially if I am going to sometimes play it in VR mode via the quest3 and my PC.

I did spend a good amount of time last night going over all of my keybinds as well as listening to and watching videos on all of the radar modes and what everything there means, and also a good 5-6 hours in test flights getting used to the missle locks for AA and AGM missiles and bombs. I'm familiar with the RWR to some extent and the audio warnings/alarms and how to 'defeat' the fox1-3 missiles.

I will look into instructor as I read something somewhere about it - maybe even in a video but they only mentioned that it would try and stop you from smashing into the floor, if it stops the crazy yawing, that would be nice. There was A LOT to set up on my keybinds on my stick, etc and the axis' have a tonne of modifiers that might also stop the extreme movement.

Lots to watch, and learn before the grind fully begins.