A colleague who is taking flight lessons, uses something similar at home for training - he has strapped on one of the Leap controllers onto his VR unit (might be Oculus, I can't recall) and so he can control his plane by actually reaching out and hitting virtual buttons.
He says the Leap controller and software does not get all the actions correct right all of the time, but it generally works, and certainly his practice at home has helped him in reality. I can imagine it saves a lot of money compared to real lessons.
