I agree totally with A and C.
Personally I think the experience gained with a fam flight trip is wholly invaluable. At my unit they're attemtping to make up for the lack of any scheme with flight sim time - on yes, you've guessed it, MS Flight Sim.
That's almost laughable as far as I'm concerned, not in terms of management attempting anything to demonstrate the realities of flying though - all we have is flight sim - at least they're trying something!
I was informed a few weeks ago that BA we re-introducing fam flights for ATCOs on a trial basis - not sure how that went or what the outcome was?
I miss my fam flights and I fear for the current student intake (or rather the intake that will follow the recruitment freeze) as they will have no flying training at all at the CATC - and even no fam flight to see things from the sharp end.
Worrying indeed.