Having an easy to fly trainer isn't the best way of doing things.
So the Juno, with its impossible autorotation/slope issues, should be ideal.
can't cope with the higher difficulty tasks/disciplines.
Best Ascent get rid of their 7 FTDs then, because the multi-aircraft scenarios which the FTDs enable might prove very effective in weeding out the weaker students.
why does the RAF need two types?
The RAF doesn't. The British military does, because of the opinion that all helicopter crews need to receive winch training (much as the Army appear to have missed the boat - geddit?), and much as Ascent might love to have one fleet, they seem to have decided that the 135 platform is unsuitable for winch training. Some have said that it's not great for basic crewman training either, but I quite enjoy perusing PPrune at lunchtime so I'm not saying that (RIP Baldeep!).
I believe SARTU is still running, someone has to train people going to Akr.
That was only ever a peripheral task which may well end with the legacy contract. Meanwhile the unit (NB identity change a year ago) is busier than ever with the steady throughput of RAF and RN pilots, observers and crewmen.