What I cannot understand is why we now need a flight examiner rather than a ground examiner to do,what is after all, an admin task. In fact a head of a FTO could do it just as well (after all the head of a FTO has to sign the form when you convert your licence from jaa to easa). It all seems rather disjointed to me. But, I don't suppose there is a route to make the caa see sense.