Keith you wrote:
Line Pilots do 4 sim sessions per year, 16 sim hrs per year, 4 days in the sim per year, any other way you cut it it's the same amount of sim check and training (mainly checking) as Qantas Link (eastern) or Qantas Mainline are required to do. Talk to some of the other people outside the Qantas Group and you may also find some similarities between sim programs. Just because it is different to the way Qantas does it, doesnt mean that it is worse.
How are these Sim sessions structured?
Is it a 2 day session every 6 months?
Is the first day a practice session with the second day assessed?
No problem really as this is how many airlines run their licence renewals.
Care to comment on the amount of initial training given to new starts especially when one considers the rapidity of promotion and the general reductions in pilot experience levels that all airlines in Australia are now having to deal with.