Hi PJ2, thanks for the refresher - yes, I remember the VSI needle clearly during the AF447/UAS exercise. Unfortunately I don't remember checking an analogue standby altimeter (I don't know if there was one), because I was so dead-set on committing what the PFD was showing me to memory.
I also remember the altimeter digits themselves changing to amber, but going back over my notes that may have been during a different exercise (the TRE very kindly let me have a go at a couple of landings in the time remaining) - it's possible an MDA had been set.
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