I’ve flown a Cirrus with this system:

http://www.aopa.org/pilot/firstlook/080408garminsvs.html

It was actually a lot of fun.  Cool plane.  Cool tech.

Old school, seat-of-the-pants flying is slowly but surely going the way of the abacus.  If you can fly your simulator on your home PC, you can (just about) pilot a real aircraft!

By the way, the pic below has no direct relevance to the above statement:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28679343/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/ 5/