(Just woken up again - 5 hours behind you guys).
Evil J - a CRI is a qualified instructor. Point I'm trying to make is that a Floridian/Californian FAA instructor IS NOT authorised for this task.
BEagle - I said examiner CURRENCY can be checked on his/her JARFCL150 (trying to stress that this is a serious bit of paper - everything goes on it). The paragraph before that one says that individual examiners know what they are authorised to do.
I agree with you on the 3month/12month revalidation question (which is why I said about LASORS being wrong) - but the CAA still insist, verbally, that it can be done any time in the 12 months.
90 day rule is valid for passenger carrying, irrelevant to the question of class ratings, so I dropped it - but somehow knew that somebody would comment on it.
What's the difference between an LST and LPC then? In one you are grumpy, in the other you smile? Where does the dividing line on formality lie?