Does any one know if there are instructors/examiners in WA who are qualified to revalidate my CAA PPL by experience and BFR.
If you want to revalidate by experience (12 hours experience, 1 hour instruction) I *think* (but am not entirely sure) you can send the whole lot (logbook, SRG\1119 form, payment form) to the CAA at Gatwick, where a resident examiner will check things over, sign the SEP revalidation page and mail the whole lot back. That would save you from having to find a JAA examiner in WA, but it'll increase the cost somewhat (p&p plus the CAA fee). Call the CAA to see if this is indeed possible. But to be honest, it would probably be easier to setup an agreement with a friendly JAA examiner before you go.
If you can't revalidate by experience you'll have to do a License Proficiency Check (LPC). It's not called a BFR in JAA-speak. And yes, you'll need a JAA examiner for that.
Note that within JAA land, a JAA examiner from any JAA country is good enough. It doesn't have to be a CAA examiner specifically. For completeleness sake, make a copy of the examiners license/authorization and send that the the CAA at Gatwick along with the rest of the lot. If it's a non-CAA JAA examiner they won't know his details.
(Unless you still have an old-style non-expiring UK PPL, in which case you'll probably need a UK examiner specifically.)