About 1 in every 100 virtual pilots knows how to perform the basic administrative flying tasks that must be completed on the way to and from the target.
Know how to get yourself around the conventional range pattern without fouling? Know what SETOS is and how to calculate it? Know how to fly an a proper engine failure takeoff profile? Know how to fly a TACAN penetration? Know how to fly Fighting Wing, and what your primary responsibilities as a wingman are? Have enough SA to remain within your assigned airspace container? Know how to fly a proper overhead approach?
If not, you should be flying a training airplane in a training environment. They don't teach you how to fly an overhead at the A-10 FTU.
And truthfully, you'd also learn basic tactical flying at IFF in a training airplane too. So if you don't already know how to fly proper tactical formation, fly a proper popup attack to 20 LALD release, or how to properly Two Target Strafe, the T-38 would be more realistic.