That new FAA advisory circular actually talks about using sims for systems familiarization. Was reading the maintenance manual for the G5000 avionics and it SPECIFICALLY says to use the trainer software to practice FMS database loading. Makes sense if you can catch weird faults before they happen for REAL.

Loud people mess up the focus for everyone. My crew can't hit a straight line if some guy is yelling into his phone next to them. You gotta shut that stuff down.