I hate trainers like slowjet who pitch scenarios that "make you think" which basically means you must think like me or my hovering pen will tick fail.
IMHO he wasn't there so how the **** does he know what they were really dealing with. Aeroplanes very rarely fail in a text book fashion.
As for trainers in my experience if you throw something at them on the sim they Havn't seen before they are the same as everyone else floundering around making the best of it as demonstrated by the botched go around on the 757 posted elsware on this forum.