Screaming and teaching thru fear in intimidation is just a cop-out for poor instructional ability.
It is a little worry that the syllabus is being whittled away, but in today's exodus from the RAAF and huge pressures from above to pump more out with less in order to play catchup.....something has to give. There just aren't the bodies and airframes to crank up output in the traditional way. There are certain items that can go and would't have much impact.
Form in an underpowered CT4 is a joke anyway
There have been plenty of tail end charlies at BFTS over the years who didn't have time to do any Form flying and had a slightly retailored package at 2FTS to bring them up to speed. They went just fine. There have been students that have done the form package at BFTS and had a real hard time in the PC9.
Same with learning IF on the CT4. It's great to understand the concepts of an IF world, but can really instill bad habits within students (eg: SRS)....especially when they hit the twitchy PC9 in comparison. A student could look away from the CT4 dash panel for about 10 minutes and you'd still be at your altitude.
Low level nav in a CT4 is pointless. When you now have a 20kt headwind with 2 knots of speedup potential....can't help being late.
You could throw 500 CT4 hrs at someone and it won't do much more in helping them with the PC9. I think you'll find the old 1FTS syllabus was about where things are now. Amazing how the wheel turns.
Low early IF hrs is the critical point.