Something I forgot to add is that as well as the occasional AI training, physical practical (including hot drills in structures - 'fire houses') and theory training is pushed heavily with a very comprehensive training program that includes Australian Standards and nationally recognised qualifications.
Over here in the lovable land of.au, we (CFA) and other fire agencies around the country already use a training simulator made by VectorCommand in the UK (link) which is very similar to this package in the OP. Career staff particularly, as well as volunteers, are readily ran through various exercises and drills on it. One of the most useful features is that it a scenario can be run individually or with a team of users (with networked computers).
Phone cloning is possible with GSM, but improbable, someone would be going to great lengths, buying equipment worth thousands of dollars
Thousands of dollars is an overstatement.
All that is needed to clone a SIM card is a standardish smartcard programmer which are readily available in prebuilt or kit form for as little as AU$40. The algorithms encrypting the KI (unique ID of a SIM) can be bruteforced in 10-12 hours on your average consumers PC and can then be programmed into appropriate firmware on blank smartcards (Gold cards commonly).
I have done this numerous times myself with little effort, simply a point and click affair (legitimate purposes of course - having multiple telcos on the one SIM card).
In this day and age, SIM cloning is definately very feasible and plausable. As mentioned a few times in other comments, a SIM can be cloned by physically having the SIM, data sniffed over the air or simply guessing KIs.
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Something I forgot to add is that as well as the occasional AI training, physical practical (including hot drills in structures - 'fire houses') and theory training is pushed heavily with a very comprehensive training program that includes Australian Standards and nationally recognised qualifications.
Over here in the lovable land of .au, we (CFA) and other fire agencies around the country already use a training simulator made by VectorCommand in the UK (link) which is very similar to this package in the OP. Career staff particularly, as well as volunteers, are readily ran through various exercises and drills on it. One of the most useful features is that it a scenario can be run individually or with a team of users (with networked computers).