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That’s both out of date info and overly dramatic. The paper tiger sessions will be with instructors who’ve never flown the plane, but are type rated and well versed in it’s systems. They’re just there to teach you buttonology. Chuck Yeager is not needed for that. The actual sims will be instructor pilots who also fly the line.
”121” is overblown nonsense. The job is leisurely and easy. Between consulting with your instructors and reading the FOM, you can do it in a month reading 20 pages a night, you ought to have a very good idea of what is meant by certain phrases.
Out of date? I am going to have to disagree with you on that.
There are no "paper tiger" sessions anymore so I don't even know what portion of training you are referencing. Indoc/CPT is taught by an FOI that yes, is typed in the airplane, but they've never flown the "AIRPLANE" as I previously said; only the sim and they have NEVER flown the line and they do struggle to walk you through a 121 flight because they've never done it.....
After CPT the training does get better as they are active line pilots. But for the first few weeks of training the knowledge of line operations is weak. Don't get me wrong, if they don't know something they will work hard to track down the correct answer for you but if we are going to be training more and more pilots where this is their first 121 job.... the training will need to change.