You would be doing the planet a favor by doing everything in your power to shut the program down. You may not understand why now, but in a few decades you definitely will. When you become a Captain in 7 years, you will be wondering why you are only making $65,000/yr when guys right now are making significantly more as Captains.
I am sure that you are a very capable person but in the civilian world, training is abysmal since it is a function of cost. One of the promises of Gateway 7 was that it takes lessons from the military. They say that but, in reality you will never:
- Take an E-190 for a 4 hour flight to do touch & go's, fly multiple full procedure approaches, practice emergency descents, practice single engine approaches, stall the plane in real life, simulate student mistakes in real life, etc.. like they do in the USAF/USN.
- Get to play in the Level D sim whenever you want. You will get exposure to everything once but never really feel proficient in anything but the sterile environment of the training sim.
- Undergo extensive professional development with peers. In the military, you spend A LOT of time briefing and debriefing every aspect of a training mission to exacting detail while learning from others' mistakes. There is a great deal of feedback loop from lessons learned systems. In the civilian world you will be able to coast for a year while you forget every ops limit, memory item, and how to even do a go-around. While this is not a professional attitude, it sadly happens. The military does no-notice checkrides and has you prove memory items/limitations regurgitation at least once a month in order to fly.
The entire civilian aviation industry depends on "experience" which is really just double-speak for learning by making mistakes. The problem is that someone in your position will very quickly be put into a lot of responsibility armed with JetBlue's canned training programme. It will make you a sunny day flyer but certainly nowhere near 'experienced' enough to deal with non-clinical situations. There are thousands of such experiences that you will never get through intense/persistent training (e.g. military) and there is no expectation that JetBlue or any company will ever invest the money into you the way the military will. This is nothing more than a tactic by JetBlue to put a Candystriper into a Medical Doctor's shoes in order to reduce pilot pay down to candystriper pay. You should listen to some of the investor conference calls that JB has had where the bankers have asked how JB will contain pilot costs being the "highest paid labor group".
Sorry to rain on your parade. I've no doubt you can become a super-pilot. It's not about that... it's that these companies are setting you up to fail because their training will never be sufficient to make you equal to someone who has 5000 hrs of experience and professional education (e.g. Embry Riddle 4-yr program, US military training, etc..). It's also about degrading the profession.
Lastly, as everyone has said, there are TONS of pilots who are significantly more experienced than you will be. Do you really think it is fair that you jump ahead of all these other people who have been climbing the mountain one step at a time?
Make no mistake - Gateway 7 is about cost cutting by devaluing the profession.