I just interviewed at ASA and part of it was the sim eval, in a level D CRJ700 sim.

You hand fly it with raw data in the eval.

One of the guys in my interview group had just come from a week at ATP in Jacksonville and their CRJ course. He said that the course did little to prepare him, as there was virtually no hand flying on raw data during their training.

Working as a CFI will teach you about judgment, communication and observing in ways that are just incomprehensible.

This career is a long, hard road.

There aren't any shortcuts.