I believe we're the only airline left that does a sim check. It's not the Frasca "equalizer" anymore, but a simple redbird computer sim or something. I thought the training program was great, I didn't struggle through it but also had previous jet time. The Q400 is a real piece of work, and Horizon has made it stupidly over-complicated with our SOP.

Don't have a source for the feds failing, but it is known.