Well Canada it used to be that way... Every 6 months we needed training and a test but now it is no more.
If your company has a proper Transport Canada approuved training manual we can go to two years now before requiring a flight test.
We go once a year for a full recurrent training (twice is optional), on the first recurrent we do a loft in "lieu of a test" but this loft is not just a regular loft it compromises of failures and multiple approaches which in the end turns out to be excatly like a flight test... The following year after the full recurrent a flight test is given.
Does anyone know of applying for mitigating measures when the ICAO member as registered differences from ICAO regs?