I think people tend to over exaggerate the difficulty of the Dash. Yeah it can be tricky to land at times and there's some peculiarities to it (particularly Vmo below FL80 - but you just need to be aware of that and slow down, which you can do quickly). I honestly found energy management for example way more challenging going onto the airbus. The dash could slow down and go down. Easily. Admittedly it doesn't take an awful long time to master on the bus but a CDA on the dash was a piece of piss to achieve. Less so on Jets. I loved the dash (would love to have another go at it) and it's a fantastic aircraft to start on, no question. But let's not pretend it's the Space Shuttle ;-)