yeh, sim eval is nothing to be afraid of. If you haven't flown one in a while, normally they're pretty cheap to rent out for an hour, and instructors are happy to collect a couple of bucks to sit around and run the stupid thing, failing instruments, and engines is always fun.

Only thing i could see someone worrying about is that they don't fly like airplanes, but...you can get over that if you just fly the thing is good as possible, keeping a good scan, there should be no problem, i used to love flying the old frasca 142...gets you a heck of a good instrument scan when you can't feel anything, it wants to turn in every direction, and every approach is shot right down to minimums and has to end with a missed (no visual)...and an autopilot. what's that?

Another note, when i was going through my recurrent at TSA, i noticed a new slew of computers sitting in the old "interview" room, all having a joystick connected to them....besides surfing the internet, these things all have MS flight simulator installed....and the ERJ model loaded....anyone know if they're ACTUALLY doing evaluations based on MSFS? If so....that's a new ultimate low in cheapness, tackiness, and lack of professionalism.