BEagle,
The T67M's a pretty good piece of kit, you'll find, with good performance, and massively strong airframe. It's only down-side is its roll-rate, but that doesn't matter if you're doing all your procedural stuff, pre-METS.
As for completing a BFT cse prior to METS, thats absolute pants. Sure you've got some more hours in, and better hands, but you aint training good hands on the wet-dream.
Formation can be covered at EFT/MELIN, and the stude can pick it up again on the OCU, if it's relevant.
The current METS course is pretty comprehensive, and if the venerable Jetstream has to go, as is surely must by now, then a 'Basic' METS package on the Seneca would be fine, followed by a package on the Dominie, for all the chaps going MEJet.
You complain about the falling standards on the Skoda now, but that's because you're no longer grtting the 'Cream' of graduates, since you stepped out of the 'Captain-must-be-a-Sqn Ldr-Days'. As far as waste of money goes, what is it about your jet that warrants it the longest OCU in the RAF. Surely it's not more demanding than a GR7?
Farfrom...
[ 20 October 2001: Message edited by: Farfrompuken ]