passing airline training isn't rocket science, but it's hard work. If you don't feel as if you're being pushed as you go through training, then you're probably not studying hard enough.

No macho-ism but there's a reason airline training is typically fast paced, and in the "old" world, unforgiving. It's because while you're qualified to be there, not everyone is cut out to be there. They will pile as much information on you as you can take, then pile on a little more, they'll tell you the date on which you'll take your oral, assign you an instructor, tell you when your checkride is going to be and with whom, and it doesn't matter if you've got a little quezy feeling in your stomach about your comfort in the sim, when your day comes up you gotta play ball. It's a tough way of doing business, but, it keeps the guys out who may not have what it takes when the alternate is hard IFR, and the destination is worse, your engine is on fire and the captain is dead.