Given that we only do bi annual sim assessments there is only so much that can be covered and while you may get to have a go at a turnback/short pattern circuit you certainly won't get to be practised at it.
And that is one of the problems. We spend countless simulator hours ticking the scheduled boxes, engine failures at V1 time after time, year after year, in addition to happily playing at actors and actresses during straight and level LOFT or whatever the latest terminology has it.
CDU buttons are pressed with great aplomb and the wonderfully reliable automatic pilot is used most of the simulator time. Yet hands on practice is rarely made available for the rare events that have really happened to other people. The events that require first class manual handling skills. For example let's include such things as close-in very low level circuits, dead stick landings, full blooded GPWS terrain warning and instant reaction pull-up, flight control failures where only the engines are left to give pitch and roll, the really nasty unusual attitudes and recovery technique, ditching technique in IMC - and other events I am sure readers can envisage.