Great place, great people, better than great aircraft.
Have done two "initial" courses and the "operational check flight" course over the last three years.
Learnt a lot of valuable stuff every time.
Yes, expensive, but it's really just cheap insurance. Your boss or you spent around US$2,000,000.00 for the machine, another $20,000.00 shouldn't break the bank and you have someone who KNOWS what he is doing in the machine.
The 407 isn't just a 206 that has grown fat with time. It is a whole different machine.