Hi,
The test should have been carried out at above FL100
Just a tought ... but for me if the tests were conducted at the altitude of 35.000 feet ... the result of Perpignan will be the same than AF447
I don't see that altitude will change the fate of the Perpignan event.
The scenario was set to finish in the sea .. from any altitude over the one of the day.
And indeed the pilots were very experimented on type.
Again .. the hours on type are not a reference for "experience" ... as seen in many accidents.
A) He was applying (inappropriately) his memory items practised recently in the sim?
The memory items were innapropriate (reason why AF changed it after the AF447 crash and sended all their "experienced" pilots to the sim for play again the scenario)