HarryMann, Smilin'Ed, very helpful thank you. So the roll I did in the 320 sim with all the FACs and SECs off was what it woulda been like...good to know -
Not necessarily "like"....
BUT had AB's aerosim guys been stood in the back of the cab, and told you that they had taken data gathered during the exceedences part of the cert programme and used it to SUBSTANTIALLY extend the sim matching beyond the VERY rudimentary requirements of Level D (or whatever we're supposed to call the top end training devices now) then maybe it would be "like". They'd certainly be able to review the manoeuvre post-session and tell you where you were in the interpolated aero data envelope, where it was extrapolated, and where it was likely nonsense.
The Level D QTG basic requirements are very thin indeed. Most OEMs will go a bit further, because there are qualitiative tests to pass too. But there's a LOT more goes into validating the math models for specific engineering purposes than the basic sim models, and not all of that necessarily gets into the production sim.