Honest advice
Furbpilot: I think you're probably a little overwhelmed with all the advice coming at you over this forum. You've made up your mind and really want someone to back it up. Its not going to happen, so choose the middle road.
If it's not too late, sit down with your present employer and explain your position before you resign. Tell him that you're just not sure, but that you feel compelled to try a move to EK. If he's a little older and been in the game for a while, he'll understand. Ask him if you can come back if it all turns to custard. It will help him too, because you'll send a clear message to anyone else at the company entertaining the same notion.
When you get here and you get the keys to temporary accommodation which is an apartment in the middle of the business district with no clear idea when you and your family can move, you have a back door.
When you draw the short straw and get paired up with one of the many instructors who treats you like a child, you have a back door.
When you draw the shortest straw of all, and do your final check with our favourite instructor who quizzes you for 4 hours on.......your politics, your President/Prime Minister and your sexual persuasion and then finally fails you anyway for not starting your stopwatch on push-back, you have a back door.
When you lodge a complaint about this treatment and the company grounds YOU for 3 months and subjects you to non-stop psychometric evaluation and the culprit walks free, you have a back door.
It's OK to make a well intentioned mistake, and its the mark of an intelligent man to admit it and turn back down the road you've just travelled. Do everything you can to keep the door open, Furbpilot, and an honest "Good luck".
SM.