I would love to hear from current pilots or CFI's regarding this one. I am about to become a student pilot, having finished ground school. I have had a few cfi's recommend using a flight sim as advanced "chair flying" (learning the airplane as well as procedures).

That being said, I wonder if in addition to using tools like the PHAK, AIM, chart supplement, etc., as well as VATSIM, if the following would be helpful: Using the sim in VR, with hardware controls for the yoke (with force feedback), rudder pedals, throttle/mixture controls, trim, and flaps, and have it mounted on a motion base (something like the Yaw VR2)? I already have VR and a rudimentary joystick/throttle and rudder pedals. Is using a force feedback yoke as well as a motion base overkill? Or, would that be helpful?