Dozy got a sim ride through an act of incredible kindness on the part of three people he will always be eternally grateful to (one in particular).
Dozy managed to perform a manual takeoff first time, followed the FD around, recovered the aircraft from the AF447 scenario *twice* and managed a successful FD-led landing on the second attempt (having fumbled the throttle/stick co-ordination on the first). Dozy did all that in around an hour and a half. Dozy hadn't been anywhere near the controls of an aircraft since he last got out of an AEF Chippie in 1993.
How you can say there's anything wrong with an interface that allows a clumsy doofus like Dozy to manage that I cannot fathom.