Yeah. It's a racket.
I had to do the UK FRTOL, all in all cost me 150 quid the cheapest way incl travel and RM SD. I know it'd be cheaper during training here, but I needed any RT for flying gliders solo in Czech Rep and didn't have time to do the RT saga there.
If I'm doing more than PPL/NPPL in Europe later, I'd give UK CAA wide berth with flight crew licencing fees.I'd rather spend more time flying for such money. They're not the only 'JAA' country in Europe..