SAS
Just caught your latest post and you will be pleased to learn that the hot news on the sim front is that ICAO have just published ICAO 9625 Document Volume 2 - FSTD Qualification Data.
This for the first time provides for specialist sims designed for helicopters and creates the opportunity for sims that are affordable and easy to maintain which will in turn lead to them being located in more convenient places in larger numbers.
There is a conference on this very subject in London at the end of May. Check-out the Royal Aeronautical Society's webside for details. I will be there.
G.