I have to agree it does take them a while I had an address change and that took them 5 weeks. I had to drive to Gatwick to get the new Rating put on, which was going to take 3.5 hours in the end they did it in two, but I was wondering why it takes so log to print a piece of paper.
Where a for the charges, they are a tad steep coupled with the new JAR hour requirements you have to win the lottery before you can attempt anything in regards furthering your career.
And what happened to grandfather rights?
When you want to upgrade from a Multicrew IR to a Singlecrew IR you have to have another CAA checkride.