BEagle, and all:
The training I do in the Cats is sort of like the chicken and the egg problem.
When someone wants training in one I just sort of end up doing most of them due to there are not many flying and I stay current just by doing it.
As to the actual check ride it is usually done by an Inspector from the Country that the airplane is in ( even though they never ever seen one before ) except for a couple of countries that have given me check ride and type rating authority, the last country to do that was Australia, and now I have done all the magic paper work for Holland.
England lost the nicest PBY on earth when I ferried N9521C from North Weald to Virginia last summer, did you see the five page article on it in January FlyPast?
Well soon you should have the new airplane that Plane Sailing bought ferried to England and there will be a flying example for airshows.
As to renewing my Instructors rating, I can't afford the lobotomy to learn and reguritate all the manditory lesson plans and TC's ideas on how to teach.....so I'll just stumble along using what little I have picked up over the last half century doing it.
One last question?
When are you to old to still teach flying?
Chuck