From what I remember, and in fairness it's been a long time, the Airbus training was the most civilized of them all. It was nothing like the Boeing training, which sucked back in 1990, and had gotten absolutely no better when I again went through in 2006. A right of passage that they never bothered to fix. A really dumb thing. The MD-11 program was really tough. Perhaps it was because I was going from a right seat to the left seat, so I now had to really know the FOM, as well as everything else, plus the systems on the Mad Dog are very complex, including the FMS and all its nuances, what with different colors meaning different things. Give me a break, after flying all night, I was lucky to be able to read the stuff, never mind knowing what it all meant. The Airbus, with its ECAM is a stupid pilots' dream. After orals, you can forget almost everything you had learned about systems, because the jet knows them and all you need do is be able to read to resolve 99.99% of the problems. A very cool way to do business. Too bad that Boeing never figured that out, but with most of their new systems being fully automated and redundant, usually the problems fix themselves. Except the really bad ones that is. For those you gotta know your butt from your elbow.