Fats
What I would be really interested to see is a simulated scenario with a basic PPL where the autopilot was failed at FL380 and that PPL not prompted or assisted in anyway by the sim instructor / operator but left to it completely?
He could get assistance and instruction only through the radio as in real life
In your sim session were you instructed as would be the case from someone miles away in a control room or someone looking over your shoulder at your every action and rectify visually your moves ?
If you controlled the thrust speed glide slope drag application yourself without visual prompting rather than blind prompting you did amazingly well )))
Pace