some of us used to make it a private requirement using spare time during an endorsement to ensure that pilots could handle several of the unlikely but very high risk scenarios
Yes, we could ask to, after check ride was over to do something not required with time left over to see how it worked out in the sim. I was flying into Caribbean islands with a lot of birds in a B727 at the time so asked to have two engines fail at 500 ft at V2+15 and the check airman said it wouldn't fly. I asked to try it anyway so he did and guess what, if flew. We had to descend about 200 ft to get to clean climb speed and climbed on one engine. We are usually over water so ground effect wasn't even needed to not have to ditch.
Using the sim is a great way to try not normally trained methods of surviving.