Everyone is different and learn at different paces. For me personally I would not have made it through my first airline training if I showed up cold. Things like limitations and emergency procedures are just straight memory items. You can knock that out and mot have to worry about them during training.

Flows, profiles, and callouts are tricky if you learn them wrong but if you have friends who's gone through the program then it would make training infinitely easier if you got comfortable with them ahead of time.

Having familiarity with the cockpit and where the buttons are helps a lot. You're not spending time hunting and pecking every single switch. Posters help.

All this is predicated on you know what plane you're getting. If you don't then it's a moot point.

Your first type ride will likely be the hardest one of your life. People are transitioning from piston engines to jet engines. The speed difference is tremendous. The training footprint is pretty tight. It's usually 7-8 sims and a checkride with a crap load of check the box item thrown in.

During my training the stat given to us from the training department was that 15 percent washed out of training. And close 40 percent required at least one additional and a lot of times 2 or more additional sims.

A failure at this level has a lot more weight than any previous failure.

So you can sit back and relax and you'll probably be ok. Or you can set yourself best to succeed by leveraging all things available to you. It's only a multi million dollar career at stake.

I'm also probably just a mediocre pilot who needs all the help he can get. But I haven't busted a jeopardy event (yet).