In Europe most flying places are clubs - the US style FBO with aircraft for
hire is rare. The joining fee gets you insurance which for ¢æ100 is good
value. There is no way anyone any club would let you carry an excess on
their aircraft.

If you fly from local fields, then I hope your French is good because they
don't tend to speak English in the pattern.

An English accent might just be tolerated but an American English accent
bursting onto the airwaves will be treated as static.

The best thing to do is to try speaking French first, be so bad at it that
they start speaking English. Extra brownie points for that and at least it
shows some respect for the French.

cb


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Hello folks,
I will be in Paris in about a fortnights time and was hoping that I
could hire an aircraft to do some private flying. Somewhere to the
north or northeast in preference. The license side I have already
sorted out.
I have found a few aeroclubs in the area which seem to be OK, but they
generally want a joining fee of 100+ Euros. Since I will likely only
have a day or so spare I was wondering if there are any straight hire
and fly places.

Any (helpful!) comments welcome.

Regards
C. Brooks