On Nov 15, 8:13*am, tienshanman tienshanman.
wrote:
'glider[_2_ Wrote:





;711965']On Nov 14, 8:32*am, tienshanman tienshanman.
wrote:-
I would like to spent a few weeks flying somewhere in Europe this
summer. Alps or S. France probably. Can anyone tell me whether I can
fly solo in France, Germany, Austria, Italy on my US license? I would
also be interested in hearing about a generally good place to fly and
rent gliders in that region.

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tienshanman-

Contact Burt Compton *in Marfa. He will know the latest.
Yes, you can but you will need to get a license in Europe. And you
will need a current US Medical.
Southern France is great.
GA

I have sent Burt 2 emails; he has yet to reply.


Hey, I sent a private email reply to a guy named Karl asking the same
question, so maybe that's not you. Sorry if your emails are not
reaching me. I've been traveling alot lately and tomorrow I'm off to
Florida for a week. Back to Marfa, Texas on NOV 23 for our thermal-up-
to-the-wave season.

I prefer to give advice off this group. All I know about is about
Germany / Wasserkuppe / Bavarian Alps south of Munich. To summarize,
you can fly gliders solo (but not motorgliders) in Germany but it is a
"courtesy" for ICAO certificated pilots (the US is a "member state"),
and this courtesy may be revoked any time. The final decision is
always with the individual clubs. Very few commercial operators. So
go fly dual in a nice Duo Discus or DG-1000 and have fun. They will
let you fly yet they will talk on the radio, keep you out of the
strange (at first) airspace, navigate (most villages look the same)
and take you much farther than you would might soar solo , and closer
to mountain tops than you might dare solo. Learn --- they have
interesting concepts about soaring and especially reading both the
terrain and sky.

After all, they "invented it".

Burt