It’s not just like a video game, and I used to play flight sims with a joystick.
Ok sport. I’ve done both and I say it is. You can indeed give someone time in most modern flight sims and teach them to control an aircraft in flight quite successfully.
But in any case, your concern was how the pilot skimmed the ground in the Pentagon attack. The pilot of flight 77 was well trained.
“Hanjour first came to the United States in 1991, enrolling at the University of Arizona, where he studied English for a few months before returning to Saudi Arabia early the next year. He came back to the United States in 1996, studying English in California before he began taking flying lessons in Arizona. He received his commercial pilot certificate in 1999, and went back to his native Saudi Arabia to find a job as a commercial pilot. Hanjour applied to civil aviation school in Jeddah, but was turned down. Hanjour left his family in late 1999, telling them that he would be traveling to the United Arab Emirates to find work. According to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden or Mohammed Atef identified Hanjour at an Afghanistan training camp as a trained pilot and selected him to participate in the September 11 attacks”
By the way, the average Kamakaze pilot had about 40 hours of training.