Really.
Hoping people realize that time spent in an airplane in “peril” with valuable freight, but non-humans in the back, and a very real human pilot in the front, who is not dead, and who has no interest in assuming that status, and who spends his flight time learning to be “less close to being dead” preliminaralliy by manageing systems which want to slide out of line clandestinely while said pilot is listening to Art Bell, and playing fingerpaints with the St Elmo’s fire on the plexiglass, (biggest prepositional phrase I’ve ever attempted), is infinitely superior to anything somebody comes up with in a sim.
A pilot gets dead over the wilds of northern somewhere, does himself and his $150k C402 in, and there are a few packages that need to be accounted for.
He does that for 1500 hrs, doesn’t get dead, passes his ATP ride, and I think he’s ready for a right seat.
not really a simulator or part 142 program that’s gonna get you there...