I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, Les. I certainly understand your feelings about flying, though.
Enjoy the Hornet! I sure do.
For a really "realistic" time flying around the boat, use AICarriers, and vLSO. Couple of small add-on programs that very much enhance the experience. Remember, use the newer AICarriers.NET, rather than the original. It seems to work a lot better on newer machines, and it seems that the original has some troubles with FSX:SE, which I have. I use the newer AIC, and haven't a lick o'trouble with it.
As to vLSO, it's amazing. Incredibly well written, although for some reason, those AI LSO's have it in for me, I swear...
I can post links to them if you want.
Point is, HAVE FUN!
Pat☺