The sim was booked for early evening and in the afternoon I got a call from the examiner asking if I was aware of the new 3 year rule? I wasn't and he had only learned of it that morning. Bottom line is if your JAA/EASA LPC has expired by more than 3 years then you have to do the full type rating course again
The UK CAA website, as of today,provides the CAP 804 latest amendment of september 17th.
Nowhere is this 3 year rule mentioned,only the 7 year rule for IR theory credit and a 3 month rule for the yearly proficiency recurrency.(FCL 625).