Jet Jock,
Like I suggested earlier, come over and take the sim ride evaluation, that will give you a bit of a taste of what it's like.
It would appear that older guys have had the problems. But remember some guys that fail the CAB check are retrained and restested. But, guys who have struggled along the way win second prize.
There is one undeniable fact the ANA staff will do all that they can to keep you in the program. They are incapable of making an individual decision, so it's all done by an invisible committee when there's a scrub.
Turning off the control hydraulics to see if you can duplicate the Iowa accident will win second prize.
Arguing with the instuctors will be like playing Kplunk, you'll eventually run out of marbles.
Flying on one engine at 300ft with the autopilot engaged waching it accelerate to 250 kts and gently descend will also win second prize.
After 10 take offs with V1 failures and ten crashed, he went on to fail his first CAB test, he was retested and was happily flying the line until he took another job. It's not that bad really.
