it really is boring to read petty whinges about the CAA
Don't read it then. You have the option.
So, instead of venting your frustration at having screwed up yourself and vainly expecting a 'never mind, we'll sort it out for you' attitude - get the paperwork right, job done.
Hairy,
I do not dispute that it was my responsibility to send the form it. However, you obviously seem to be missing the point. The point was that they already had my logbook and license and it would have been a fairly straight forward issue to correct the mistakes which had been made (i.e. quick check of logbook - which they were doing anyway, and a photocopy / whatever in the file). I'm sure there is someone within the CAA who has the authority of a FE, in fact anyone in FCL who's job it is to scrutinise logbooks / licenses could have done it.
In general the CAA do generally provide an ok service, though nothing more than I would expect from the fee's they charge. Maybe I was foolish to expect that tiny bit of extra customer service......
Try convincing the Post Office that they should retax your car on the promise that you do have an MOT but left it at home....
Its is absolutely nothing like this.... It'd be like providing the MOT and insurance, but forgetting the form. Most of the time the nice lady behind the PO counter would get a blank form, check your details and fill it out, and issue the tax disc.
Ok so how do I get the job done? If I can't find the examiner again, what do I do, go and find another and ask him to "retrospectively" fill out a form? I'm sure he won't do this, I wouldn't if I were a FE for reasons of forgery someone else pointed out. The only people who can correct this mistake in my view are the CAA, and as they had my paperwork for 10 days they had ample chance to check my details and as long as they were happy with it, could have cleared this whole mistake up with no further ado. Which is why I asked them in my covering letter to update their records.
Sorry that the Belgrano reference offends you, I picked it up from these Forums. Seems there are a lot of over sensitive people reading Pprune these days who don't accept that people are entitled to their own view. I'm sure my posts enrage many people (1 for sure), but thats their problem. I don't let their views enrage me....
I'm sure if someone posted a thread on "how to boil and egg" it'd end up 10 pages long, with people slagging each other off by the end of it.
Happy flying