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They were doing the SIM's in one of those flight experience simulators, so a practice on the real SIM would help very little. I have heard its beneficial to have a go on the FE SIM before hand because it really does fly nothing like you would expect.
In other words the flight experience box lacks fidelity in that particular manoeuvre. Having said that, if the airline assessment is to be conducted on the flight experience sim then it would be worth spending a couple of hundred dollars to buy some practice. Make sure the flight experience sim instructor is qualified on the real 737 as some of their "instructors" are PPL or CPL only - although they are used to the quirks of the flight experience sim
In the end, its these questions that usually get you the job or not.
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That is because once in the airline, manual flying skills are considered not that important because its all automatic pilot for the rest of your career
