Thanks for the info! I think that's the final nail in the coffin for me and I'm going to give up hope of ever getting licensed. They just keep changing the goalposts all the time and the closer you get the more hurdles they put in your way.
How many Part-145 companies in the UK are ready for these changes? I was recently working down at ATC Lasham and they didn't have any way of getting people trained up under this new system and a load of guys had completed type courses but were unable to get the type added because of this.
I'm sure that all it will mean is that there will be far fewer UK licensed engineers, because the UK CAA is the only NAA that will actually enforce all of these new rules properly.