checkride = skill test
Thanks for your input GoodGrief, I am afraid though that this not how I understand the AMC. In fact, I subscribe to what 212man writes regarding the S-92. On the first day of my initial pilot type rating at FSI for the S-92A, one of the first things that was asked by the instructors was precisely: "Does anyone need an ATPL skill test?"
None of us were rated on the S-92A evidently since this was an initial pilot course.
Linda787 thanks for sharing your experience, you must have obviously met the multi-pilot time requirement prior to the checkride and I guess your time on type flown through your ICAO license fulfilled that requirement. However, strictly speaking you did not have the printed type rating on your Part-FCL license, which is what my CA is expecting. They want me to hold the type rating first prior to understanding the ATPL skill test.