Wheels
Cant speak of days gone by. I can speak of the last few years. When going to the CAA Office, I have to put on my best smile as I know somewhere in the process Im going to get screwed. Were it not for a few faces I know, these problems would become costly and time consuming.
I have to agree from postings I have seen that the U.K. may even be worse. If nothing more, expensive as hell.
Understand that its the same round the world, but so far in dealing with the FAA (35 years) I have had no problems.
The one incident within the last month at CAA was from a friend going in cold to get a validation. The tale was a real nightmare......Again a few known faces cleaned things up.