Well a game like this isn't going to attract the ADHD teens that love stuff like Counter-strike, thankfully. So it leaves geeks like all of us to enjoy a superb, triple X rated, hard-core flight sim on our own.
Like yourself, I spent the first week with the game just learning to hover taxi, successfully, up & down the taxiways at 5m.
The effort you put in to it, really does make it worth while.