They have some great cockpit procedural trainers at 2FTS which are nothing more that million dollar cardboard cutouts with a few knobs and switches! They could have been easily been turned into full IF simulators, but oh no.....cost too much??
The return they would get from such an investment would WELL outweigh the cost. ESPECIALLY in todays tightening
"syllabus".
I say "syllabus" becasue it really pi$$es off the new revolution of edumacation officers in the RAAF that like to rewrite and complicate things!! Curriculum was their new buzz word