Mirror squadrons will work fine. Some guys are activly looking forward to teaching a more varied syllabus, whilst others are worried about this 'surging' of available 'BSA or ASA' instrutors to whichever Sqn/Flt can complete their Flypro with the given Weather- it's this surge where DHFS HQ believe that time can be made up. The issue that I forsee is that this surge will not deliver the hoped for reward as it's physical training area that Shawbury is short of. Being limited to 4 cabs per side at Ternhill, a fact that is further restricted by the type of exercise being flown- means you can chuck as many instrutors or even aircraft at the situation, but little more will be achieved. I agree with previous points that new CFS grads will get a better grounding, but the same could be achieved within the current system, ie changing Sqns post B1 Cx. however, one of the problems is that very few CFS grads get to stay at Shawbs, wich is a shame.
To sum up, it will work. It will cause, rightly or wrongly, much heartache (and more SCT than the normal amount by some 200 hrs actually) for very little actual benifit. It will however aid 'flexibilty' within the system. The benifit of this flex will, no doubt, be proven with time. In all, given what DHFS HQ have to work with, why not????
Tgreen.