You may or may not have taken note of the reaction of other posters to your comments, and you may not be aware of how your comments are being perceived.

You have time in an isolated environment (military) operating remote vehicles; that does not equate to pilot in command experience in the civil or real world. The comprehensive environment of aeronautical decision making is something at which you don't have experience: you're a private pilot with a few hours of pilot time. To enter suggesting that you're highly experienced, or that you have an understanding based on being around pilots, comes across as a certain degree of chutzpah, and will quickly get you dismissed, as it already has here.

"I'm experienced while I'm not experienced" won't really cut it.

The attitude that one doesn't like the airlines because of their regulations smacks of naive, young uninformed opinion. If this is what those around you are saying, you might be best served stopping listening.

If you intend to become a professional aviator, you're going to need to get to know regulation. You'll need to be intimately familiar with FAA regulation. You'll need to know the aircraft limitations, procedures, systems, and any related data thoroughly, and you'll need to abide them. You will absolutely need to know how your employer wants the aircraft operated, and any restrictions, limitations, procedures, or policies the employer may have regarding operating the aircraft, conduct of the flight dress, bearing, behavior, actions, and the job in general.

I'm doing an assignment right now which requires me to comply with the FAA regulation, with my employer regulation, and with the regulation and policy of multiple agencies. I'm absolutely expected to be in full compliance with all of them at all times. I'm expected to know them and to abide them. This is the case for all working aviators, including military aviators. You should be very well aware of this.

There are certainly aspects of your training and your operational experience which will benefit you as a pilot. Incorporate those lessons learned. Keep them. Don't make the mistake, however, of considering yourself experienced as an aviator. There's a big difference between looking at pictures of weather and instruments on a screen or display, and flying in the weather. The same is true of every other aspect of flying, and operating as a pilot. Even as a student learning instruments, there's a big difference between wearing a view-limiting device in training, and flying in actual instrument conditions in flight; not the same thing.

I can't speak to the failure record for domestic students at Transpac and other training facilities, but the Chinese have an exceptionally high failure rate, with multiple practical tests for the same certificate or rating often evidenced in their logbooks...retests after retests. Any school or facility that's willing to not only accept that, but to operate that way in the long term, should be given careful consideration before committing one's personal funds.