Are there any computer flight simulator games which can help you to learn how to fly a Cessna 150 or 172 ?

No, it is unrealistic to think you can fly an airplane if not taught by a Flight Instructor. Granted the flight simulator is a handy tool to practice INSTRUMENT procedures, put that off until you have your pilots certificate and are training for the Instrument rating.Are there any computer flight simulator games which can help you to learn how to fly a Cessna 150 or 172 ?
Computer flight simulation games are exactly that, VIDEO GAMES. They DO NOT teach you how to fly an airplane, although there are some on this site who foolishly believe that they do. You can gage the number of those foolish people by the number of "thumbs down" my answer receives.



If you are interested in learning to fly a small aircraft contact a Certified Flight Instructor. You can find some at most local airports. Leave the Flight Simulator games for entertainment purposes only.Are there any computer flight simulator games which can help you to learn how to fly a Cessna 150 or 172 ?
FSX is Perfect for just knowing how an airplane operates and get EXTREMELY good knowledge of the Flight Instruments.



X-Plane 8, or 9 is the king in this field (in my opinion)

We use it to train in the Egyptian Aviation College, as it is certified for pilot training. but still does not have the same feeling as a real airplane till you use .... a YOKE :)Are there any computer flight simulator games which can help you to learn how to fly a Cessna 150 or 172 ?
Let's get real here. I assume you have never flown an airplane before, or are considering learing to fly. While MS Flight Sim and others are great as learning tools, you CANNOT learn to fly an airplane from scratch using them. You MUST fly an actual airplane under the guidance of a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI).
Any good desktop simulator is better than none at all. Microsoft Flight Simulator is the leading desktop simulator. The FS2004 version runs faster than the newer FSX version. If you want maximum realism and accuracy, you might also invest in a payware add-on Cessna, rather than the default Cessna, which isn't as accurate.



Of course you cannot learn everything you need to know about flying from a simulator, but you can very definitely learn virtually all the basic principles of flying, and you can see how controls affect the flight of the plane, learn how to read instruments, and so on. It can give you a significant head start on formal pilot training. There are some differences between simulation and real flying, naturally, but you can easily adjust once you transition to a real plane (if that be your objective).



The weak spots of simulators are that they don't give you the full visual field that you'd have in a real plane with many windows, and they don't give you any sensation of motion. You can add good controls to the sim to improve realism, but as you might expect, they don't exactly duplicate the feel of real controls (although, here again, adaptation can take place quickly).



A good plan might be to try flying the sim and read up and study on your own. If you like the experience, and when you run out of things to study and you're quite good at flying the sim, you can start with formal flight instruction and real flights with a real instructor. Don't be too gung ho about flying the sim perfectly, because it is different from real flying in a number of respects, anyway, so you'll be adjusting in any case.