LEVC, I fear you misread the tone of my post. I am trying to decide where to do my FIC and am simply interested in the course structure and what to expect. If people have good experiences of doing it in 3 weeks on anytype of aircraft then thats great and I want to hear about it. I assume any course is conducted according to the regulations so that is not my point. As for simulator use, since I have not heard of other schools using one I just wanted to know what it was used for on the FIC.
I probably could have phrased my last post better.