when i was like 10 i sat in an f-16 cockpit replica at the state fair in the army recruiting tent and named all the controls and their function and the pilot there was genuinely confused how i could know any of that.
all from a shitty flight sim i played in between episodes of dragonball z. it's pretty wild.
and now you can play this
http://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/and literally learn how to operate artillery pieces, BUK AA batteries, russian ground attack planes, etc because they are 100% realistically simulated.