I next went up to the SIM SUP (Supervisor) station to find out what they had planned for the rest of the SIM. It’s good when you know what’s happening and then you can go down and watch the controllers work the problems.
The hardest one they said they were going to give the crew was a slow Freon leak (for cooling systems) that would cause a problem downstream. They were also planning on shorting out a power cable and there would then be smoke!
It turns out that there are two groups of trainers; shuttle and station trainers and they train the crews completely separately.
SIM SUP Console