French requirements for solo flight

On Apr 8, 7:05*pm, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:18:35 -0700 (PDT), Steve Freeman

wrote:
On Apr 8, 4:03*pm, John Smith wrote:
Steve Freeman wrote:
Can anyone advise me what I will need to be able to fly solo

Best would be to just ask them:http://www.cnvv.net/

I did and they referred me to the local district office at another
airport that I need to call and I thought someone on the list might be
able to give me a head start.

I guess it depens on the result of a check flight. I had no prior
mountain flying experience and made two flights in double-seaters
there before they told me to fly solo.

Bye
Andreas

Did your US medical and license transfer? I am more interested in the
legalities rather than the experience needed. The last time I flew
gliders in France was 5 years ago and it was just with an instructor.
He said that if I wanted to come back and fly solo I would have to get
a French medical as the US medicals were not recognized in Europe as
they were not ICAO compliant and a current medical was need to legally
fly a glider in France. Was I given incorrect or out of date
information?