My UK license shows only the original date of 2001 on it, plus a bunch of various reval signatures and dates 2004-2009.
The thing is that I turned up for the FE reval flight in 2007 so if I was still on the original 2001 license he would have surely spotted that.
A good job I have another one to fly on
How long can the 5-year payment bit lapse for before you have to re-sit the exams? I fly ~ 150hrs/year in the meantime.
In Germany we USED to have 24 hours in the last 24 months, plus at least 3 cross-country flights.... seems a lot more sensible to me.
Rumour is that it was
Germany which wanted the 12hrs in the last year. I have no idea of the reasoning behind it. It encourages people to chuck it all in because they know they don't need to fly at all for the first year, post-PPL, planning to clock up 12hrs in the 2nd year, but of course most give up before then.