and can we put this one to rest:
BTW I knew a Flight Engineer on Concorde; he reckoned he & his colleagues tried to recreate the Sioux City recovery in a Sim, and anyone who got within 40 miles was doing very well ! Respect indeed ! You may be able to corroborate that.
By accident or design (usually this), simulators I have handled have borne little resemblance to the real aeroplane in all respects, always most seriously on the adverse side of the real aeroplane. Without denigrating the achievement of that crew in putting the Sioux City aeroplane down on the airfield, a better representation of the event created in the simulator would be more illuminating. Simply...simulators suck. They bear little resemblance to reality. So the above statement is actually doing down all other pilots.
They were just an ordinary crew on the day who were called upon to achieve something sensational, and they preformed superbly. There is no need to do down the rest of the aviation community to talk them up! And they would not have wanted that either!