When I went to the UK (from Oz) many years ago I needed something like that. When I went to the USA more recently I wanted something like that before venturing out of our little valley alone. I found lots of traps for Australians in the USA - extreme weather, mountain flying and tall aerials for example.
stol - if you wanted to fly my airplane down in Melbourne you may get a similar answer - depending on how much flying you had actually done in Perth, where you wanted to take my airplane and time on type.
2 landaway dual flights? - well, one good one is probably as good as 2.