Not really. Procedures can vary from air frame to air frame and engine series to engine series. I have a low end aircraft and a sim for my avionics isn't even common even though the avionics are. Simply starting a turbine without a fire can sometimes be tricky. Flying is very different from sims. Most sims focus on procedures and not flight realism. Which is the point. Xplane has the most realistic flight model, by far, and it's still far short. Ms is traditionally arcade, though not tried current. It's possible he used the operator manual but that's also very unlikely given unfamiliarity and supposedly there wasn't much time. I couldn't do what he did without the operator manual and a solid 10-15 minutes. What people don't seem to get is that only a high time pilot can jump into a seat and start a depth of different aircraft. Most people don't even know about things like control locks which have to be released (failure is usually fatal). And things like this are usually not on sims as it's part of preflight. So on and so... His expertise far exceeded a zero time pilot. And he was joking and happy. Which is not someone suicidal.