Does your fltsim have 210 degree visuals and the full flight cockpit/flight contols?
The advantage of a sim like the one on the sunshine coast is the instuctor can fail the engine at anytime without the pilot knowing/seeing when the engine has failed and it's a full failure rather than just pulling back to idle. You can also program the winds to make it that much harder.
Read the report on the E120 crash in DN and see CASA wants to people to make use of a sim if one is available. Although it's only a fixed base and uses flightsim for the graphics, the aircraft and flight controls are based on a real 172, in fact the sim is built around a crashed C172 fuselarge.