On Monday, April 30, 2012 2:14:17 AM UTC-4, POPS wrote:
Question for the Europeans -or others- that know the facts, only the

facts ma'am....:



What happens when a US pilot shows up to fly in Europe, like Germany

Austria and Switzerland for any number of months? Perhaps joining a

club to help facilitate things.

Any preparation to be done here in the US beforehand? Medical required

over there? Language barriers based on required reading/testing?.....



What lays ahead. I hope it's not a insanely massive paperwork chase

like other stuff I've ground through over there.

Thanks









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POPS

I flew for a year in Germany on a validated FAA glider certificate. What did I need? Thirty hours total glider time and a medical. That's it. Nothing more.

I only had five hours glider time when I arrived, so I flew as if I were a German student pilot. At 29.9 I was a student; at 30.0 I was flying with a formlessly-validated license. Surprisingly unbureaucratic for Deutschland.

Go to www.lba.de and look under Luftfahrtpersonnal.

I now have a real German license because I wanted to do some aerobatic training here.

I got a BGA Gliding Licence by mail based on my FAA certificate. Oddly, when I got my German GPL it was based on the BGA one...

I won't share with you the months of pain it took to get my powered license converted. Yikes. I had to pay 100 Euro to prove I speak English as a native speaker!

Terry