You either have the type-rating or you do not have. Mermose did. Anything else is bull and is only a stunt to cash in on the situation. Shop-keeper management again, no doubt - squeezing the last possible penny from you. To quote Mr W B Yeats, Romantic Ireland is dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. By the way, this is not the same O'Leary as our playboy MO'L but a figure from the Celtic Revival period in Ireland at the end of 19th century. He too became disillusioned at the burgenoning, penny-pinching, middle class Dublin traders & shopkeepers of the time. Not much has changed?