view from the ground, I am sorry but that is one of the most inane questions I have seen , even on pprune!
Look , quite simply the guy stuffed up big time and wasting bandwidth asking questions like that is in my opinion plain silly.
Who cares what some sim instructor may think? The point is is that for whatever reason the guy pressed on, he made a very poor decision and luckily no one was killed.
Asking for an opinion as to whether or not he would have failed a sim ride in those circumstances is akin to asking someone if they would like more money or not, what do you think the answer is going to be??