Ron,
This is my understanding from digging into it a few years ago (and
getting a French recognition of my PPL**). Hope it make sense to you.
1. To fly an aircraft registered to a particular country you need a
matching license* issued by the country of aircraft registration.
2. The "license" can be one normally issued by the particular
country or there can be some hoops to jump through where they will
recognise a foreign license and and deem that equivalent (to some or
all of the national license).
3. If you are legally flying a partcular countries registered
aircraft, you may legally fly it into, out of, or inside a foriegn
country provided that you meet the customs/border controls etc between
the two.
4. There are effectively no controls between most (all?) European
states due to an agreement in place for some
years (Schengen treaty)
So the real answer. Yes, you can fly an Italian glider in a German
competition _if_ you have your license accepted by the Italians.
*The big issue that we have (had) is that glider pilots in Australia
(and UK and NZ) _dont_ (didn't) have a license. At least not one
recognised by most foreign countries.
**My French endorsement said something along the lines of "can
excercise all the priviledges of his license" and as my PPL only had
single engine below 5700kg and didn't have any glider endorsement I
couldn't fly French gliders even though I have much more time in
gliders than power.
Regards
SWK
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Sent:Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:58:32 +0800
Subject:[Aus-soaring] Glider Pilots License
Guys ,
I have question regards this new license - if i get one and just say
the selectors went stark raving mad and i got to represent Australia
to attend an international competition in say Germany, And the only
glider I could rent or hire was an Itialian one, can i fly it in
German airspace??
Interested.
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