CAA and their fees
I own a G reg plane that's based in Ireland. I just renewed the ARC with an engineer who's licensed and authorized by CAA to do so. Now some week later CAA sent me an email saying that according to their records my ARC has expired and I either need to send them a photo copy of renewed ARC or tell them that the plane is not flying. Fair enough, I scanned the ARC and emailed it back to them. Now they're saying because it's a manual renewal I need to pay them 60 pounds to update their records.. excuse me - pay you for what?
What happens if I don't? In all seriousness, I did what hey asked me to do, they're the ones who are responsible to keep their records in order, how come I have to pay 60 pounds for some bloke to put a tick on a box?