Don't sweat the simulator, you're just being checked on your basic scan (steep turn), on aircraft recovery (stalls, windshear and unusual attitudes) and on keeping those passengers or boxes safe aboard your aircraft should something go wrong mechanically.


I could be speaking out of my outflow valve, but I believe a V1 cut takeoff is just like a normal takeoff except some additional directional control effort, calling for the appropriate checklist(s) and an emergency declaration.

The one engine inoperative approach can be described similarly.

Professional pilots fly by the book every flight or brief the pilot not flying if a non-standard procedure (i.e.: we'll delay configuring to perform a fuel-saving decelerating approach or) will be used.



QRH boxed items (memory items):

Review often and know them cold.

Limitations, realistic ones, not "the use of the FMS with service letter 1234-abcd-5678 between southern latitudes between 88 and 89 degrees is prohibited" when you fly a regional jet in and out of KORD every flight:

Review often and know them cold.