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X-Plane would have been more realistic for that test
Not if you use an aircraft model that is not very well simulated. And there are plenty for X-Plane and MSFS, just like the entire private or standard version of X-Plane isn't comparable to those versions that are being used for flight training devices and aircraft development.
Regarding to what golden_eye said: no flight model or flight sim is "100%" realistic. Not even all that stuff Airbus and Boeing use during design and development phases (but it's extremely accurate though). Real world flying would be "100%" realistic As pilots say: a simulation remains just a simulation. Even if you are used to fly a full motion simulator, the first thing you'll notice or rather feel when you switch from the simulator to the real aircraft for the very first time, let's say a 737 or Airbus A320, is the distance between your backside and the landing gear druing take off and landing. That is something, the handling of the aircraft, you even can not recreate in a full motion simulator. Not to mention desktop simulation, which is actually not even close to reality by 50% in most aspects. Try flying a real small single piston engine aircraft, and you'll immediately feel being fooled by anything you have known from desktop simulation before, no matter if it was X-Plane or MSFS. It's actually not comparable at all. It feels totally different. The aircraft reacts almost totally different. An approach looks and feels totally different. The only thing you are used to is the instrument panel layout and how to use it. But that's all. And right at the point when most student pilots think they now can fly a 737 or A320 because they have done so in the full motion simulator, become rather nervous when landing the real thing for the first time during final training. They still have to learn how to land the real thing (taking off isn't that hard) before they start their daily jobs.
Anyway, a computer simulation might be useful to test some things for and during aircraft development from the engineering point of view (MSFS less or actually not at all, X-Plane more). From the piloting point of view, a full motion simulator is basically a procedure training device, and a desktop simulation basically is nothing more than having some fun, even if you do it the most serious way. Of course you can use it for training, but it will never be comparable to real world flying.