Sim 2 went a lot better. Still need to smooth off the rough edges, but a lot better than sim 1.
Started out doing the flight deck safety/inspection checks for a through flight, so we got started a bit quicker. None of those pesky FFOD items.
Caught the "APU FIRE FAIL" that was tossed in on me, and pushed back. Got a no lightoff, put the thrust lever to shut off.....and notice the fuel flow wasn't decreasing, so I hit the engine fire switch to kill the fuel SOV. That did the trick. Oddly enough, that was the only abnormal start he gave me. Ran the QRH and taxiied out. Normal takeoff and climb up to 5000 feet for my new fav manuever, steep turns. If my type ride lived or died tomorrow on my steep turns, I'd be okay. Stalls were MUCH better. Managed to do them within PTS, so that little fear in the back of my mind is gone.
Finished the stalls and got a "HYD 3 LO PRESS" message. Ran the QRH and discovered no fluid in our #3 hyd system. This is a bad thing b/c you lose the normal gear extension and the nose wheel steering. I can live without being able to retract the nose door. Declared an emergency, got vectors back to MEM for a LOC 36L approach. Asked for 36C since it's 2000 ft longer, but it was closed. At least I asked, though. Got set up for the approach, fought off the panicky/stressed ATC guy that kept trying to rush me into an approach to get me out of his airspace, ran the last couple of checklists and headed in. I'm still a little shaky on some of the call-outs in the sim, but I can fire them off when I'm sitting in a chair not moving. Just gonna take more practice to fight through the adrenaline dump, I guess. Normal landing in a 10 kt crosswind, up until the accumulators for the inboard brakes finally gave out, no nose wheel steering, and I wasn't sure I was EVERY gonna get the thing stopped.
Reset on 18R, take off and had an engine flame out at V1. This was my first V1 cut in over a year, and it was pretty bad. I wound up about 10 feet off to the left of the runway in the air, so we reset and did it again. Much better this time. Did the SE takeoff profile to the letter, got up to the final segment and ran the single engine procedures QRH. 'Course the WX in MEM was crap, so we couldn't go back there, so we wound up going to Tupelo for the VOR/DME 18. Did all the normal stuff we do, declared an emergency, checklists, notifying the right people, etc, etc and headed to TUP. Better on the call outs for SE non-precision, and the go around (hey, you KNEW that was coming, right?) wasn't too bad. Publshed missed and entered the hold to get set up for the ILS 17 into TUP. SE ILS went well, and the SE landing was actually better than the normal landing from earlier.
All in all, I still need work on the landings from the left seat. I'm winding up off centerline b/c I'm used to the sight picture from the right seat. My hands are starting to work together a little bit better now, but it still needs work. I think if I can get the landings down, iron my call-outs a little more and just relax a bit I'll be okay.
Sim 3 is tonight, and I'll be halfway done with sims. Sim partner's checkride is next Wed. Mine is next Thur.