As I see it:
Benefits
1. Each sqn could manage the full course to finish on time (at present, the flying task for one is less than the other, but each has the same amount of time to complete their part).
2. Students (sorry, ‘trainees’) wouldn’t have to suffer a change of environment and personalities half way through.
3. More interesting range of exercises for the QHIs to teach – particularly of benefit to the CFS graduates who would have a more rounded experience at the end of the Shy tour.
4. Simple to move individual QHIs from one sqn to another in case of sickness/detachments/promotion/whatever.
5. Reduction in the ‘sausage-machine-feeling’ that comes from teaching the same old exercises too frequently.
Drawbacks
1. Difficult to train existing staff to teach exercises from the other half of the syllabus without disrupting student flying.
2. Umm, I’ll have to keep thinking