Hey Spooky,
It sounds like you are having fun experiencing what I always considered the ultimate video game—a session at FlightSafety flying the level D simulators. Where else would you find yourself with one turning, one burning, on an approach to minimums and the tower calling you with “road apples on the runway, go around” at your missed approach point.
These sims are amazing at recreating what it is like to fly the real aircraft. Other than the lack of vertical axis “g’s” and the touch down characteristics, they are good enough to have you forget that you aren’t in the actual aircraft. It’s pretty cool that you can get type rated in an aircraft that you have never seen and that you might not even know how to open the door to get into.
You have seen that the training sessions do not get too far along before things start going haywire. Just when you think nothing else can go wrong, it does. What amazes me is that I have at home a PC loaded with BMS software, a few bolt ons like a TM Cougar and Track IR, that gives me the fidelity and immersion experience that rivals those level D sims that cost $$$$$$$.
Have fun in your flying career. There is nothing better than getting paid to do what you have a passion for.