No, I don't believe PI's are scheduled with the sim.

From what I understand the sims are simply quietly kept open and even the instructors can't normally see the open sims until after the schedule for the month is loaded, but the idea is to have backups for an increasing number of sim down time. I understand why the schedulers decided to go this way, but I had a couple 10-2 sessions last year and they are brutal. Now I understand they are scheduling guys for a whole week of such sessions. That seems completely wrong, and hopefully this is going to a Grievance soon.

Speaking of Grievances I also heard there has been an uptick recently after the brief hiatus where everything was cleared out. Guess a call to my reps is in order to get a "what's what".