Apply for a job as a ferry pilot and if you don't have at
least a commercial and instrument rating, the insurance
company will "require" you to get rated.

What is required in the USA may or may not apply on a
delivery flight. If the airplane carries an "N number" USA
rules apply, but if it already has a G or D or F or what
ever. that nations rules apply.

Buy your own and fly anywhere you want, you can self-insure.
Fly somebody else's airplane and they will probably
"require" that you are a fully qualified pilot.

It really comes down to the question, is a pilot's
certificate required in order to fly an airplane? The
answer is clearly, NO. You can buy, beg or steal an
airplane and no license or insurance is "required."



"Stefan" wrote in message
. ..
| 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
| . ..
| | 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.
| |
| |
| |
| | "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
| |
| |
| |
| | 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