FSacademy has lesson packs that I've found pretty good for Microsoft Flight simulator. Though they are not super US-centric. The built-in lessons are decent f

FSacademy has lesson packs that I've found pretty good for Microsoft Flight simulator. Though they are not super US-centric. The built-in lessons are decent for the basics. The older flight simulator lessons with Rod Machado were much, much better. I had picked up FSX on Steam for cheap during some sale, and they are available digitally there. I've still used that for reference, and even though they obviously don't integrate interactively with the new Microsoft Flight simulator, you can still use them as ideas to practice skills. If you decide to get serious about it, bite the bullet and get rudder pedals. In my opinion adding feet coordination is a much bigger adjustment than yoke versus stick or a fancier stick. Also VR is truly a game changer. It requires beefy hardware and will ratchet up the cost, but it will seem downright cheap compared to real flight time.