I went for my intital at the start of January, barely any progress has been made in that time. The progress that has been made could have been done in under an hour if they actually bothered to sit down and sort it, but apparently it has taken 6 months to get this far. The AME is impossible to contact, as is the CAA. My future hangs in the balance and they don't seem to have any urgency whatsoever to get it sorted, nor can they be bothered to even send me a simple email to update me. The whole process is a joke, I hope the renewals aren't this painful because it would seriously put me off aviation as a career