Fed Sec
This "time since last course" clause is rubbish!
While I can appreciate the intent to spread the licences more evenly over a wider number of LAMEs, to base the 25 points on just the number of years since your last course is flawed.
A simple system that divides the number of years you've had your basics by your number of company full type courses would be much more fair.
Bolt-ons, while not worth as much, do contribute to a LAMEs pay and hence should be worth 1/2 in this calculation. Current or not.
An outside course that a LAME has paid for himself should not count for as much as a company course but the fact that it also increses one's pay should mean it counts for 1/2 too. This recognises the effort and expense he has contributed but also recognises the increase in pay he recieves.
The current alocation of the union's 25 points does not seem fair when you consider the Super LAMEs that went from company course to course as soon as they were eligible, have since been racking up bolt-ons and now that the customer airlines have gone and their last few bolt-ons have dropped off the radar, they're next cab off the rank.
The number of licences you hold has to come into it. After all you can only sign one aircraft at a time.