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Flying in Germany
http://jimsladesairlines.com/beil.html
I've known Harmut from many years ago when he was flying his Ercoupe from the Bay Area. He returned to Germany a few years ago and wrote this report from his native land on the differences between US and German GA. -- Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way; stop participating in it. ~ Noam Chomsky |
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I've known Harmut from many years ago when he was flying his Ercoupe
from the Bay Area. *He returned to Germany a few years ago and wrote this report from his native land on the differences between US and German GA. That interesting. I lived in Berlin for a year or so. I'm not surprised at the level of regulation or the fact that German law in practice trusts "foreigners" more than Germans. The once Nazi country can't be seen as being unwelcoming to non Germans. |
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Pretty interesting, didn't realize the rules are so bizarre in
Germany. AOPA would probably love to publish this.. with the dollar so weak, it would be a steal for Europeans and others to come to the US for flight training. On Dec 25, 7:02 am, Bob Fry wrote: http://jimsladesairlines.com/beil.html I've known Harmut from many years ago when he was flying his Ercoupe from the Bay Area. He returned to Germany a few years ago and wrote this report from his native land on the differences between US and German GA. -- Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way; stop participating in it. ~ Noam Chomsky |
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Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
Bottom line: Most of the facts are correct, but his viewpoint is very "American" and not very flexible. He makes it sound as if flying here is extremely hard or difficult to achive and as if the rules were a nightmare. Fact is that it's quite affordable and comparatively easy if you set your mind to it, and the rules (of which some are quite silly I agree) aren't really such a nuisance, and can be avoided if you know how to. Interesting to see the different viewpoints - appreciated. I suppose one way to compare affordability and ease of acquiring a license or certificate is to compare the fraction of population that have acquired them. For the U.S. I believe about 1 in 500 people have a pilot certificate (~0.2%). (The FAA published stats on number of active certificate holders on its web site.) Are there numbers available for other countries like Germany? |
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Jim Logajan schrieb:
I suppose one way to compare affordability and ease of acquiring a license or certificate is to compare the fraction of population that have acquired them. For the U.S. I believe about 1 in 500 people have a pilot certificate (~0.2%). (The FAA published stats on number of active certificate holders on its web site.) Are there numbers available for other countries like Germany? I don't know the number, but whatever it is, it doesn't tell much. Or, it rather tells much about the different interests. Face it, most people in Germany are interested in different things than most people in the USA. E.g. soccer is probably the most popular sport in Germany, while baseball is pretty much inexistant. Or, to stay with aviation: While there may be less power pilots in Germany than in the USA, there are many more glider pilots, probably even by the rough number, but certainly by the percentage of the population. For most Germans, private flying is just a sport and not a means of transport, for many reasons other than money or regulation. |
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"WS" == Wolfgang Schwanke writes:
WS Haven't I been reading complaints about restricted flying WS around Washington DC here, and some whatchumacallit military WS zones that crop up in the US in all sorts of places? Surely. I myself was caught in one of these "pop-up" Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) almost 2 years ago...only because our Vice, Cheney, dropped in for a day to raise campaign money. These so-called VIP TFRs are most annoying. Other TFRs, like for fires or other disasters, make sense and can often be inferred while flying. For a while Bush wanted to criminalize TFR violations! But that was shot down. Only 13 more months of our own Nazi regime. -- Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. ~ Henry James |
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Wolfgang,
Private pilots here simply don't do it, because the costs of acquiring and maintaining an IFR licence are prohibitive. Uhm, objection! Getting the IR is very expensive. Maintaining it isn't. Not by a long shot. That's because there is simply no difference in cost for VFR and IFR flying below 2 tonnes MTOW. If you fly a sensible amount of hours per year to remain VFR current, you'll be able to do the same IFR. If, OTOH, you fly ultralights which cannot do IFR, that's another story. but with some of the newer designs you're actually faster and more comfortable than some of the "real" pilots. Except, you can't fly IFR which, depending on pilot attitude, might lead to much riskier "scud running" flying. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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