Originally Posted by mohaupt

Being picky isn't a bad thing.. I think people forget that you are flying an aircraft caring 50+ people at speeds of 400+ knots...

My sim instructor said it right last night, "we are preparing you take our families to locations across the globe, we want to make sure you can handle it."

The whole idea behind training is not to teach someone how to fly but what the companies procedures are. If you have trouble flying a simulator at 250 knots then you have no business flying jets.