No. Not at all. A red bird is easy. It's what I did mine in/on. Rather a table top version of a red bird. Then a full size red bird for initial IFR checkouts. In my opinion, it's a nice piece of equipment. As an FO, you must pass a couple of "checkrides" before you are allowed to go to Dallas for the real sim. A lot weren't getting through. EC and the brass felt it was weeding out weaker candidates before wasting time and $ for the Level D at FSI. It's more of a procedures trainer, practice approaches, callouts, overall CRM training, flows, checklists or introduction to the avionics. 16-18 days in PSM, then another 7 in Dallas for a 12 is a bit much. I personally think PSI, GA, RT should have used the 3M and put that towards their own Level D PC 12 Sim. 3M only gets you a quarter of the way, but huge savings with training, travel, etc.

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