Whilst I do not for 1 second disagree with the message I have major reservations about the messenger’s organization.
Both the major OEMs now view training as a cash cow and are doing everything they can to (eventually) have total control. (Which they will achieve either via the Seattle ‘royalty’ model or by means of unaffordable data licenses).
Today’s latest generation aircraft training programs are almost totally dictated by the OEMs with even malfunctions being under their control and the FSTD operator having limited or no influence.
For an organisation that now professes to want more hands on training, it is somewhat contradictory that their latest aircraft can be converted onto via a CTR of only a very limited time on a low level Flat Panel Trainer with no simulator time required!!