Indeed, you aren't best placed to judge Proudfishead. I've instructed on the Army Pilots Course and can tell you that output standard from Shawbury was of grave concern on occasion. I personally saw students pass from 660 to 705 Sqn who shouldn't even have got that far, but somehow managed to be passed out through the sausage machine for us to deal with on the Operational Training Phase. So where are the concepts of "Tri-Service fundamentals of flying" there? We are in the business of producing "MILITARY" helicopter pilots. DHFS is a largely civialiansed organisation focussed on teaching basic flying skills. A task which it does well on the whole (something the RAF didn't consider when they left Shawbury out of there original plans for MFTS).
So let's not kid ourselves on here. Each service has a completely different approach to how it operates it's aircraft and no service has fully embraced a joint concept. The Army is very focussed on mission effect and it's main effort is to deliver that effect on the battlefield / theatre of operation. It is this concept that is lacking in alot of students returning from Shawbury and so there is often a need to remind people of what they are there to do in the first place.
I am not having a go at DHFS. I enjoyed my training there and the standard of instruction was second to none. But it is out of touch operationally, geographically it offers none of the benefits that SPTA does both by day and night and the reality is that it is not equipped to deliver the requirement that Army Aviation needs. The Army is right to push Middle Wallop to the fore, it delivers the end product we require.