Nose-wheel, if you've ever had the mispleasure of seeing how government agencies work from the inside you would be mortified! For example in Dick's case they charged him $4k which was still probably a financial loss to CASA. Why? Well you have all those different hands that need to be used in the process - the admin girls, a Clerk, an Inspector, discussions with other Inspectors, a supervisor or department manager, time spent on Google, reading paperwork, shuffling paperwork, losing paperwork, not understanding the regulations, reading regulations, re-reading regulations, making up regulations, twisting regulations......get my drift? It is nauseating observing the levels of incompetence, laziness and disarray that calls itself, in part, a 'service centre'. And all this for what? To make Dick's plane safer?
Yep, taxpayer money pissed into the wind. I could have charged Dick half that price and still had enough change left over to spend on party balloons and a pinate for McCormick's farewell.
P.S Just because Dick can afford to pay the $4k thousands of times over doesn't mean he should have to. The cost is a crock and so is the supposed benefit. Nobody should have to put up with the impost, rich or poor.