Sign of the times again I fear.
Everywhere I go these days no-one will pay for recurrent training now. Take the cheap option and knock off an LPC in the aircraft instead. You may think the training schools would sit up and take notice. They have had it good for a while so reduce your prices and make it affordable rather than push all your customers away and then have idle simulators!!!
Another example of the dumbing down of the whole business. Safety costs money but there seems to be no shortage of people willing to take the chance!
Just how much lower can this industry sink?