I did the RN EFTS at Leeming in the late 70s - and I really benefitted from the 80 hours, particularly the "recovery from unusual attitudes" that we did post aeros.
The AAC are already training for Apache, which is a very different proposition to Gazelle ops, although to a lesser extent Lynx, so I think they should be taking the FW EFTS up to the RN level, not removing it.