Normally....
I do try to stay out of anything like this relating
to training as flying is purely an interest for me and
I am in no way shape or form an aviation professional...
However... You knew that was coming!
I have a possibly unique point of view in that
a) I teach diving
and
b) I've been run through the mill on what's the most
stressful course I've ever done when I learnt to Cave Dive.
With all these failure to perform tend to be a deep rooted
Physiological as well as Psychological reaction, and, one that
negative reinforcement tends to play havoc. The expectation
that you will forget / do badly / freeze feeds upon itself and
correspondingly causes the effect you're trying to prevent, but...
You already knew that.
From experience I know that you know this however, what you
need is the mental tools to deal with not the problem you're having
n the sim, but, what's reinforcing those issues.
Now, conventional wisdom says that one good ride / dive will clear
the initial anxiety and it's probably true that once you've a good
ride under your belt you can then deal with the more complex scenarios
as they start to present[1]. Although you need to know what to do to get
'the good ride'
From my discipline the way I work is very much on the tree basis.
A leads to B which leads to C or D then E. F, G or H. Without knowing
your SOP's is it possible to build a mental 'look up table'? I appreciate that
you have far more variables to deal with., but, just being able to shorten the
decision tree should help a bit.
For what it's worth, the fact you are able to admit the issue / problem
and appreciate that it's there goes a long way to solving it. It shows
you're prepared to accept advice and acknowledge your limits. I wish we had a few more like that in the
early stages of their diving career, it would
cut the accident statistics somewhat!
As Northbeach said, do let us know how it goes, and WELCO's advice
of a quiet 5 min post brief / pre-ride should help a lot as well.
Good luck
DaveA
[1] For me complex line following through junctions, lights out sharing
air 45 minutes from a cave exit was about as complex as it got. But
the sudden air loss from both tanks (unbriefed failure) really drummed in
how much I'd learnt, big POP behind me and the feeling of air flowing out of
both tanks is not one I'm likely to forget in a hurry