Ah, va, I never said that the charges were either fair or that the CAA was a paragon of efficiency.
I was just trying to explain why the charges seem relatively high.
And I personally think that type ratings for each individual helicopter type is a good idea. There are too many differences between types (even between different marks of some types) for one set of training to cover all helicopters. (But that is another topic of debate all together...)
Just because the FAA do
some things better, doesn't mean to say that they do
everything better.