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I did some editing to the previous post after you responded. They were interviewing the actual people that trained them. I guess those trainers couldn't tell that they were very inexperienced. Driving a car and a plane are completely different. Driving a car you don't have to worry about rolling (unless SUV and taking a hard turn), stalling out (unless you drive a stick but you just sit there you don't fall out of the sky), etc.... I bet if you had a 14 year old play GT5 that he could still not operate a standard transmission car. He would either stall out or grind the gears. He would not know how to operate the clutch/gas pedals to switch gears. He probably wouldn't even know that you have to hold the clutch down to start the car.  Driving a small plane and a 757 are almost as different as driving a car and small plane.  There are plenty of maneuvers that wouldn't get you in trouble in a small plane that would spell disaster for a 757.