No offense taken
KAG, I am from Africa, and I can assure you this type of things happen, even in the more "civilized" countries of Africa- North- The people their dont realize that what they are doing is out of the Ordinary, and this thread will "Hopefully-" make them feel so.
We had to renew the license of our engineer - we are a flying school- who forgot to renew three months prior to that, so the CAA renewed it without a type. and asked that he attends a type training organised by them , and to pay a fee for that which we did.
Then they complained that they dont have anyone qualified for this type, their solution was to ask us to prepare the curriculum and the test, send it to them and take the test their.. which we did.. after taking the written test and pass, they asked for an Oral test.. and when confronted that the guy is signing off this kind of A/C for the past 20 years. they said that experience alone is not enough and training has to be provided by the CAA!!!