Looking up...
Chaps,
Sitting at my console watching the little green blips as you guys and gals fly through my airspace pondering the deep thoughts herein.
It occurs to me that there's a very simply way for you to avoid all the angst associated with sim runs from hell. Join the merry band of ATCs at Airservices and it's likely you'll never have to do cyclic refresher training again. When our Flight Data Processor failed on the 21st, rather than rely on the tired old dogma of being appropriately prepared, we simply did what we thought was a good thing. Thankfully we (you) all made it through.
So rather than facing the strain of prep for emergencies refresher on a regular basis we get to sit around fat dumb and happy and just put up with the sheer terror of the real thing occasionally.
TND
PS Wonder how the Hudson ditching would have turned out without the wealth of experience in the cockpit?