Udo,

You will find that Europe consists of lots of little
countries that are different from each other with their
own languages and their own laws. Us glider pilots
tend to fight against having one ruling body for the
whole land mass, imposing a lowest common denominator
of the worst of all the rules on all of us.

I know that is a pain, but that is why we like it.

MC

Mike,
do you know of a country in Europe that would allow an Experimental
home built glider to fly there. Can I assume if that were the case
I could then fly in other European countries.
Here in Canada we can take our experimental
glider to the USA. All it takes is an annual notification to the FAA,
that you are planning to fly in the USA.
Udo