Jay Honeck wrote:
As for for flying, well, you can do the same thing in the most of
continental Europe except the Great Lakes tour.
It is a bit more costly though.

Now tell me, where can you land in five different countries in five
hours flying time with somthing as slow as a C150 without the need of
filling out a single piece of paper(not counting aircraft log).

This is intriguing, as Mary and I have been discussing visiting Europe
one of these years.

I would MUCH prefer flying myself around Europe, but have been
dissuaded from the notion by many people who have inferred that it is
quite impossible.

Please fill me in: What would I, as an American pilot, have to do to,
say, rent a plane in England, fly it to France, Belgium, Austria,
Germany, and back to England?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hi Jay,

For an American pilot there are two options.

1- Try to find an N-reg for rent, then you have all the priveleges as
in the US on your license. Problems, just one, finding that N-reg.
2- In of the JAA countries you can fly their aircraft on a FAA license
but with restrictions.
I found this piece of text on the AOPA-NL website:

Flying with a FAA PPL on Dutch
PH-aircraft
A pilot with a foreign licence, in
accordance with ICAO Annex 1,
can fly, without validation, private
flights, provided that:
a. he has no permanent home address
in The Netherlands
b. flights are VFR in aircraft certified
for one pilot and possible
restrictions for VFR-operations
in his licence are met.

Other countries may have similar rules, I think you better contact AOPA
about this. Or ask around on the Net.

Now, flying over here.
The air behaves the same, planes behave the same, compasses work here
too and clocks still show the time in hrs:min:sec and not some metric
equivalent, so those problems are covered.

All other things can be dealt with by three simple things:
Preflight,
Preflight and
Preflight.

The first few foreign flights will give you a few mild headaches( I had
them) but as soon as you know how it works it is not that difficult.
Oh, and be sure your cell phone works here.

Good luck,
Kees.