I hear that the problem is the shortage of suitably qualified instructors. You're right about the quality/quantity issue. There's one woman in the HR department of CAE in UK who thought that you could train monkeys to teach exercises in the sim by numbers. Now they may have had a rethink, but the same person is still in the loop and it makes it very hard for the guys over in Italy to get the quality they want. A number of guys have already left because of frustration with the system and the way things are run. Don't reckon it'll improve in the short term unless they try harder to get the people they need to do the job, not just fill the slots
. It's very frustrating for clients and maybe more pressure needs to be put on Agusta. In present days you don't expect to buy a multi-million dollar machine and not have at least a couple pilots per machine having a quality factory course and a good simulator for part of the training and recurrent training. My training will begin on ........