"Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message ...
In the US we have a set of aviation regulations all made up by the FAA.

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And as a follow-up, do any non-European nations require one to follow the
European rules?



The FAA is rewriting some regs to fall in line with the JAA, believe it or not. Way back when, the European regs used to
follow the FAA regs pretty closely, but now they are starting to set the standards and impose them on US operators...