I don’t agree man. I was put in 1900 left seat with 4,500 TT and 350 hours in the right seat. No autopilot 14-16 leg days. I learned more about flying low in bad weather, low vis and icing in the NE to the deep south than any quality of intense training could have taught me in my first 1,000 hrs in that left seat. No one knows “ATIS might lie to you” until it does. Training is just that. Intense or not. DCA has always been a goat rope as has Bogotá, you can train for it, but you don’t learn it without experience. It’s usually a cakewalk, but do it enough and everybody gets their turn in the barrel. That’s when the learning takes place. 500 Hours mil or Riddle training? I wouldn’t put my loved ones in the back of a C-172 with them, unless they were the type that knew that didn’t know that there’s a lot they don’t know and had a healthy respect for that lack of knowledge. We just have different opinions.