helicopter and 212man, thank you for the replies, I will respond to the PM shortly.
BigMike
I would have thought the factory course would have explanied it comprehensively.
So would I! It was covered but not as deeply as I would have liked. As for the Eurocopter, DVD, 1000euro is a bit of a steep annual expense especially when the course should cover the systems in depth and the with continuation training material supplied
The VEMD is pretty much self explanitory but the FLI I feel could be covered in bit more depth because the information displayed is shown in a completely different manner to a standard type panel which shows Tq, TTI, etc when using standard needle type gauges.