BAB,
I can't say for certain but my (ample) gut feeling is that tests conducted to date will be honoured, owing to the ambiguity that appears to have pervaded this issue. It would be downright bl**dy minded to act in any other way.
I make this statement with the caveat that, it is a well known fact that you can ask the same question of four different people down at Aviation House and get four different answers so it would really be the luck of the draw as to whose desk the application landed on.
However, now that the issue has been well and truly flagged up, any future tests would indeed be on shaky ground and as soon as the Information Notice is sent out to ATOs and Examiners, that will firmly entrench the matter in concrete.
This situation has been created by nothing other than an inefficient misuse of the expertise that exists within the front-line industry coupled with atrocious document authoring by both EASA with Reg 1178/2011 and its Acceptable Means of Compliance together with that disgrace for a piece of authoritative literature, CAP 804, and the "competent" authorities should not be penalising individuals for their errors. It could all have been so easily avoided if the documents had been structured properly and if they had been submitted to industry for examination prior to release.
Apologies for the last paragraph rant.
