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Sim Training
I don't know that it is sim training so much as it is the total package with RTC in Champaige, IL. You get about 6-8 hours in the sim but you get more hours than that of ground school which sharpens our proceedure skills and reminds us of things long forgotten. I have taken only one RTC session (only sim only session in 48 years of flying) and found it to be very beneficial. I haven't kept my proceedure skills up to their snuff but I refer back to the material given me from time to time.
Two important things - the sim is much harder to fly than the actual plane so you really develop some skill here. You can pratice emergency situations which would not be safe in a plane. You get much more actual maneuvering time because you don't have near as much "dead-head" time in the sim as you do in the plane.
John Kileen, the owner of RTC is especially knowleable about 337s as he owns one (or two, maybe.) He'll teach yuou things you never knew about your own plane!
I have mentioned RTC only because they are the only folks who have specifically designed a program for 337s. Flight Safety or Simcom may be just as good but you'll be in a Baron or 310 or something.
I have also taken 2 or 3 ITC refresher courses where they put a simple sim in your room to practice proceedures like holding; climbs and turns, etc. The real work is done in the airplane - again 6 hours or so. They also have type sepcific training which is mostly a book and a test of your knowledge of your airplane.
Most of the time I get an instructor and get a IPC in less than 2 hours total time in the plane plus an hour or so of ground school. It makes me legal for another 6 months but doesn't have near the training impact either RTC or ITC has.
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