It sounded like his CAA wanted to make him do the differences training course again (when i implied he was still flying an AS365)....in which case i would have been correct.
That is one of the many big problems the aviation industry is suffering from with EASA........at least for the "medium/light" types we should have implemented a similar system like in the US....(or at least give a pilot a rating ONCE, then leave it up to the operator to do a recurrency check no matter how many years the rating has expired)...