Has anybody ever managed to fax or email in licensing document to the CAA (SRG1119B in my case)? If I express-mail them tomorrow, they'll probably arrive on the 31st still. Will that be sufficient for a successful revalidation?
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@Level Attitude:
That's all well, but please consider this:
1. I wrote an email to testnotification and fclweb to ask if the non-UK EASA examiner I found may issue the certificate of revalidation. I put the word "URGENT" in the subject. I received a reply 9 days later, one day before my license expires (see below). So much about urgent.
2. I called the CAA licensing hotline two weeks ago and was advised that any non-UK EASA examiner can issue the certificate of revalidation. Non-UK examiners just have to send an email to testnotification to get approval to do that.
3. I sent a separate written inquiry to testnotification, only to get an examiner's authorization as response. Confused about that, I sent another request for clarification, which I haven't gotten a response so far.
4. The examiner himself sent an email to testnotification, only to get the said test authorization email back.
5. To make sure the test authorization is all he needs, I called the licensing hotline again and was reassured that the email he got is ok.
6. Today I finally get a written response to my email from item 1, quoted above.
I feel that I undertook every reasonable step I could do to find out whether the revalidation may be carried out by a non-UK EASA examiner. I was told multiple times that a non-UK EASA examiner can do revalidation by experience. The first written response on my urgent request arrived after 9 days, two days before my rating expires, telling me the opposite of what my examiner and I have heard before.
I also cannot understand why it's necessary to mandate that the certificate of revalidation be signed before the rating expires. So even if all the revalidation requirements are fulfilled on expiry day, the rating expires just because the signature is given a day later. What would be a reasonable rationale for this?
Thanks,
Michael