@TannerSwett As one who in the past has had to contend with cockpit crew members impaired in various ways and has had to operate when I was impaired, my thought is that you could try to establish the degree to which you are or are not impaired. You could start by getting a baseline of how you operate when you're fresh and unimpaired. I don't use sim software regularly, but I've found in what little use I have done is that the most challenging task is shooting an ILS down to as low a minimum ...

@TannerSwett ... ceiling and visibility as I can successfully do. Then, while impaired, do the same and see what if any difference there is. You can change up the kinds of impairment: inebriated, high, very tired, hungover, distracted, whatever. The results, though subjective, might provide some objectivity in that the ceiling and visibility you can handle provide some objectivity.

@TannerSwett Another interesting test would be, after establishing what you can do when fresh and unimpaired and current, is to not use the sim for a set period of time, something like 30 days, and then come back to it and go immediately to what you could previously do. If you're like me, you'll find your performance considerably worsened.

@Terry Hmmmm, those are some interesting ideas!

By the way, I've been thinking about IFR flying.

And you know what? I feel reasonably confident that I could make it in and out of IMC in one piece.

I'd bet, say, $50 on it.

But I wouldn't bet my life on it. :D

Say, last night, I played DCS World, a flight simulation video game, in VR.

I remember thinking at one point: I definitely feel like I'm banked about 40 degrees to the left; I feel like I can just barely make out the horizon, and it looks like I'm banked to the left.

The HUD, on the other hand, showed that I was wings-level.

So I trusted the HUD, of course.