Designing feedback to trainees in a training simulator for complex cognitive domains is demanding but has not been given adequate attention. This paper aims to understand the importance of early work analysis in a real context during the design of such a simulator. More specifically, the aim of this research was to learn whether there were differences between the types of feedback given to the learner in an already planned design and a real-life training exercise. Therefore, a comparison between feedback given to trainees in a real-life training exercise and feedback planned for a virtual environment supporting training of crisis management was made. The results showed that there were several significant differences.