Okay, so sim 1 was tonight. First thing.....HOLY CRAP I'm rusty. I haven't flown an airplane since the end of March, and I haven't flown the sim in over a year. It showed.
My sim partner started off in the left seat, so I was pretty darn comfortable in the zone over in the right seat. Yes, you DO see every mistake from that seat. Then when it's your turn, you don't see anything.
Anyways, we did the whole flight deck inspection, set things up, pushed back and started the engines. Or tried to. First one was a no starter cut out malfunction. Next one was a weird one. Started fine, then the ITT started to skyrocket. Shut off the fuel....still going. Only one thing left to do, hit the engine fire push switch. That did the trick. Only thing is, you're supposed to dry motor the engine. Seems we've gotten the Marquis de Sade for our sim instructor. He gave us the malfunction at 55% of N2, which is where the starter cuts out. Neither one of us noticed it, so the engine wasn't dry motoring anymore. Man, if this guy keeps us on our toes like this for our sims, there's very little the APDs are gonna be able to toss at us on a checkride.....
So, taxiied out, up and away with a normal takeoff, level at 5000 feet for the steep turns. This was one I was worried about since I'd never done it before. It's now my new favorite. I lost MAYBE 10 feet on my altitude. The trick is when they want you to go from a steep turn to the left into a steep turn to the right, you REALLY have to push the nose over b/c of the excess power you've got in there. So, not really stressed about that one anymore.
Takeoff stalls.....STILL the bane of my existence. These things have haunted me since initial training, and I still suck at them. I'm getting better, though. After my fourth one tonight, I think I was starting to get the hang of it. Clean stalls and landing stalls, bring it on. I lost 5 feet on each. Now, I just need to at least get my takeoff stall in PTS.
Did some intercepting and tracking with the FMS, did a hold, and got set up for the full NDB 35 into PNS while we were in the hold. Cleared for the approach, did that just fine. Had to go around at 50 feet, and that was a little shaky. Not catastrophic, but needs fine tuning. Published missed, set up for the ILS 17 while holding. That went okay up until I ATTEMPTED to land from the left seat for the first time. Damn. Sight picture was all jacked up, and my right hand was saying "You want me to do WHAT? Thrust levers???! I'm used to moving the yoke ya dummy!" Needless to say, the approach was NOT pretty. Probably just another thing that needs practice.
Reset on the runway in MEM, told to taxi to M6, clear the runway and contact ground. Did that, and the after landing checklist. Taxiied to the gate and did the shutdown and terminating checklists.
Someone in there we got some electrical issues. We had an AC Bus 1 failure, so we ran the QRH and did procedures for that one. After we switched, we had a Gen 1 failure. Had an inadvertant stick pusher on t/o one time, too. So I got my rejected take off in.
All in all, I'm glad we didn't do anything crazy. As jacked up as I was in the left seat, if I had lost an engine, I might have spun it into the ground.
Tomorrow is sim 2, so I'll take my lessons and lumps in with a humble attitude and try to do better tomorrow.