You can also pay for a one week cram course where they just give you the answers. It is so easy it is unbelievable, it cost my company $2000 usd to send me on it. As long as you have the experience and proof of it you can do this. It's crazy. There is also no official need for type endorsement courses. You can sign anything from a Cessna 172 to a 747. Some US companies offer the courses, One I know is Fedex, but still an MD-11 and MD-10 is done at the same time and is only 3 weeks long. In Canada you would need a diffrent course for each and it would be 6 to 7 weeks long. It's scary to think about how many people with little training or experience are running around signing aircraft off and repairing them. It's almost being treted like automotive maintenance.