Don’t want to come across as to much of a hard ass, but theres 100% no excuses for not having call outs and flows down, I have seen it before and the case is always lack of effort or work. You should be chair flying and setting at the paper tiger on 100% of your free time until you get it, sim partner doesn’t want to help, to bad, still do it by yourself or someone else, it’s all on you, no excuses, as for harder to learn when your older, I’ve been in the sim and on line with a lot more sharp 60 yo pilots then 35 yo lol