IRL most of the time these test don't fail thanks to amazing job of ground crew members. As someone said earlier - this sim is not for you (and no, I'm not sending you to play Shitthunder) just learn how it suppose to be played :)
Checklist give it a lot more of realism. You treat your plane well after 10 mins of INS aligning and going through the checklist. You then don't wanna go for a airquake situation firing spamram rain on multiply targets. You feel the value of the machine that you fly for hard earned taxpayers' money. I'm almost forty, I don't have much time to sim anymore but when I find the time window for it, I do my best to simulate every aspect of behavior regarding being a jet fighter officer. Messing around on the sky has stopped being funny anymore.
It's called Role Play and it will come with time, thrust me ;)
S! Pedro's over and out.