lurker06, if he was a R examiner, that's fine.
I was told I had to pay £20 cash recently to be "signed off" by an examiner after I'd already completed my PPL SEP renewal flight with another instructor
If by 'PPL SEP renewal flight' you mean your 1 hr flight with an instructor required as part of your SEP Class Rating revlidation by experience, then £20 cash for an Examiner's pen time is utterly unreasonable. Where was this? Did you get a receipt?
An 'instructor' cannot 'renew' anything. If an SEP Class Rating lapses, it can only be renewed by flying a Licensing Skill Test (
not the PPL(A) Skill Test) with an Examiner.
The CAA, rightly or wrongly, is required to make a 6% profit. You can blame Thatcher for that. The staffing levels (at the working level, at least) are much less than they were some years ago. They do not work inefficiently, but if you want a good service rather than an adequate service, you have to pay the going wage rate..........
