LongWayFromHome,
A very good, thorough and accurate update. In particular, your bit about
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Our assessor had a great knack of knowing exactly when you were deep in thought or about to tell the PNF something important and he would interject with a question.
........ is noteworthy. The chap running the sim will also use this technique to distract you just as you are about to do something important e.g. just as you are changing altimeter subscale or perhaps intercepting the localiser. Be ready for it and BOTH of you cross-check eachother. Obviously, he'll only expect the answer from the chap he has asked but just make sure neither of you has been seroiusly distracted from something vital.