but instead we have the madness where AW139 Pilots of many years experience can’t fly it SP in any role even for a air test without doing an “SP course” which is a mechanism to take up to another €20k from them for no good reason.
or, like me, you can only fly 139 SP(as that was how my TR was issued) and have to undergo MP training despite 32 years of multi-crew experience in the military in order to comply - just like the CAA, it all seems down to generating money in EASA.