The problem is Bose, that once you tell them it is a revalidation flight , then they want to insist on all sorts of stuff, that as you rightly say, they have no right to insist upon.
Maybe best just to say that you want to do a one hour flight with an instructor for no particular purpose without "letting on " the actual purpose of the flight? The problem then of course, is that when you ask for a signature in the log book at the end of the flight, the instructor invokes their right to refuse ( the real reason being because they didnt know that what they really really really needed to do was to "test" you!)
Ever since this JAA instructor flight was introduced it has become ( with the exception a few liberated instructor /examiners like yourself) a back door means of introducing a biennial flight test.
