Jim Macklin schrieb:
The owners of any property expect to get it back. Insurance
companies set requirements. US Customs doesn't care whether
a pilot is legal." Foreign nations do care and will check
ALL paperwork on the airplane, the insurance and the pilot's
certificates.

So required might mean several things, In 1927, an
instrument rating was not required [did even exist]. In
WWII, most bomber pilots could actually fly the gauges and
fly straight and level.

Remember Flight 19, a bunch of Navy pilots got lost over/in
the waters near Florida and have not been seen since.


"Stefan" wrote in message
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| Jim Macklin schrieb:
| If you are over Kansas and the weather turns bad, you
can
| land anywhere. Over the ocean, landing spots are
further
| apart. The owner's expect that any ferry pilot can fly
IFR.
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| "Stefan" wrote in message
| ...
| | Jim Macklin schrieb:
| |
| | Any ferry pilot going
| | over-seas needs a commercial and an instrument
rating, a
| |
| | An instrument rating is defintely not required.
| |
| | Stefan
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| It's one question what "the owners" expect (why would you
know this,
| anyway), but it's an entirely different question what's
*required*.
|
| Stefan


You still didn't explain why an instrument rating is *required* to ferry
a plane from USA to Europe. Not surprizing, because I know several which
have been ferried to Europe with VFR-only equipment and from VFR-only
pilots. I can't present references to 1927, WW2 or the US Navy, though.

Stefan