A somewhat amusing aside from this tale is that the one thing that caused the CAA a degree of bureaucratic angst - and delayed them issuing a new license for 24 hours - was that nowhere had a box been ticked to say that I could speak English as a native speaker. Despite the fact that I was clearly having a fully fledged conversation with them, I had to go back to Redhill armed with a piece of paper to get a CFI to sign it to say that I can indeed speak English.
I have an FAA piggy back licence and, when the "English Proficient" requirement came in, I had to visit the FSDO at Las Vegas to get this added.
I turned up there and the official gave me a Temporary Airman's Certificate duly endorsed as:
"English ProficiAnt" (My emphasis)
