An interesting counter to what you said earlier about taking a course to prevent getting behind N6724G:

I don't care who you are, if you didn't feel behind during the sim, transition course or not, you're a damn liar. My partner and I didn't feel like we "got it" until the second to last sim session before our checkrides. We both did fine.

How do you counter this? You study. We met for a couple hours before each session to go through flows and callouts. We chair flew, we studied together, we used our experience as instructors to our advantage. Neither of us had ever been in a jet sim, I had never been in the front of anything bigger than a 414 prior to starting the sim. It was fast and furious but you're not going to have an instructor sitting back there expecting you to fly a single engine, raw data ILS with the hydraulics failed while drawing a detailed diagram of the electrical system.

TSA's training is regarded as a real ballbuster. However, our instructor went out of his way to help those that felt they were behind. He would stick around during breaks, sometimes at lunch to go over things. We had study groups, and a couple line pilots volunteered their time to help us too. Yes, a couple that made the effort didn't make it. There were about five in our class that had an attitude problem, they had CRJ sim time so they knew this stuff. None of them made it to the sim. Go back to the hotel after class, relax for an hour then hit the books and prepare for the next day. Every night spend 20 minutes out of the book and working on flows and callouts. If you do this, you'll be fine. Another thing that I think is dangerous about the course is what may happen if the company doesn't fly a CRJ, or worse (in my opinion) they do things totally different from how you learned them in the transition course. Now you're learning how to do things while unlearning the habits you've developed.

I know the stakes are high. I decided to instruct longer than I needed to becuase I didn't feel like I was ready to jump to the jet. I'm glad I waited. Had the worst happened, I had options. With my time I didn't have that last year. You sound like a smart guy. When the time comes to make the jump you'll be fine as long as you attack.

If you have access to a frasca, fly the fastest aircraft they have on there, and set up about a 50kt tailwind. If you can handle that, you can handle the jet with no problem. Find a plane with glass to fly if your school doesn't have one. This will also help if you haven't done it yet and 10 hours will still be much cheaper than just as much time in a CRJ sim.