The Navy contracted the manufacturer to convert existing fleet Super Hornets (FA-18E's & -18F's) into Blue Angel configured Super Hornets. The -C/D models are totally different airframes from the -E/F models. It would be like covering a B767 into a B777, not possible.
Ron,
Intelligence is not the point. I'm sure that you are very intelligent.
What prompted my question was you stated that "Even in the 1990's,I had to teach FAA Simulator re-certification people how to fly a stall series. In all my sim training I have never had a sim instructor who was not only a pilot and an instructor (CFI and FSI trained for non-airline, and CFI and/or company trained as an instructor for the airline), but also type rated in the aircraft that the sim was replicating.
This was not merely a "deviation" which is typically a screw up, but an outright refusal to comply with ATC instruction multiple times. Suspension of his pilot's certificate for at least three years, IHO, is appropriate.