Stickwith - "and what was that failure."
I dont know mate, but transmitting MAYDAY 9 times, are you suggesting there was no failure. My point is that there was some sort of failure, and experiencing it in the sim beats the hell out of seeing it in the aeroplane for the first time. Particularly if you are on 6 monthly sim cycles where you get to practice the failures more often and repetitively.
AND - its where you get to practice aviate, navigate, communicate - as opposed to communicate communicate communicate and obviously not doing anything else.