Does people feel that they come away from sim sessions having learnt anything? Apart from the training that FullWings has mentioned which sound great.
I mean two, four hours sessions twice a year and what can one say they have really learnt? Or practised to perfection?
I recall doing a session where we had to practise using v/s in climb and descent and see how it reaches a certain vertical speed in the climb and speed will decay and reaches a certain vertical speed in descent and speed will increase because of one incident where a pilot had a low speed scenario using a high vertical speed selected.... Using a million dollar training asset for that was not so efficient.
How about starting a session with all briefings of approach done in the classroom as they are a real waste of time in the STD and begin the flight at cruise level with nothing wrong and reasonably clear skies? Let the crew relax and settle in for ten minutes so they get a sense of normality and then introduce a warm up failure to practise crew co-ordination?