Originally Posted by
gulliBell
They should arrive at the sim with a perfect knowledge, etc. The number of hours I've wasted teaching recurrent pilots in sims the basic stuff of what button to push and when, of systems knowledge, etc The sim is for honing technique, achieving finesse, doing stuff that you can't do in the real aircraft without risk of breaking it. It is not for teaching the basics.
There’s nothing like spending time in a sim that costs $1000s per hour, teaching someone something that ought to have been mastered in the aircraft in the hangar on external power.