I heard Obama say that he was gonna close Gitmo within his first 6 months as president and Clinton say that he did not have sexual relations with that woman (he pointed his index finger and everything). I don't know what the OTM says, but there are a lot of people that have one idea and when in all actuality it's something different. In the Part 91 world (which trains the majority of commercial pilots theses days) you take a sim ride with a fed observing you get a shiny new certificate with a brand new type rating. No OE, no LOFT just a hardy handshake and you are legal to go fly your new equipment. (way it should be IMO) So with that mindset one would think, "oh I just had the FAA observe my sim ride in this airplane I studied so hard on and they won't be required to observe anything else until I upgrade to the left seat." Every training manual is different. If Joe Blow thinks he will complete class, do sims followed by an FAA observed sim ride PC with a type rating at the end, then they will be disappointed when they send in their resignation immediately there after with the previous assumption that the type is on their certificate.

I don't know how they do it, because the FAA wrote me a temporary on the spot followed my plastic certificate in the mail with the appropriate credentials on it before I even started OE, but it was after LOFT. A person coming here should find out what all is entailed with getting a type rating before wasting everybody's time as well as their own.