Surely they (LAA) must give you a reason if you ask? Try sending a letter to the UK CAA to see if there are some stops there. I mean, you have nothing to lose if the LAA refuses.
For sure not.
The German LBA has absolutely no problems with that. I talked to them before i bought the aircraft.
flieger39 wrote:
I assume that the LAA will just refuse to renew the permit.
Could it be they have received a letter from the German authorities? I just find it hard to believe that the LAA being an organisation by pilots/builders for pilots/builders would make life difficult for people unless they are being pressured by someone. This, combined with the typical british way of being secret and whispery about official business?
Hello,
sorry, i (who brought up this topic) am on holiday and had no chance to be online for days.
The problem is not the inspector. The inspector who services this aircraft travels to Germany since years.
I assume that the LAA will just refuse to renew the permit.
I’m so curious about the answers in the LAA forum and the reply of the LAA to the e-mail from europaxs.
I have bought the aircraft from a german. The aircraft is based in Germany since almost 20 years…
If you’ve posted on the LAA forum then you will of course have had to use your real name and not a pseudonym
How do they enforce that?
There are many forums like that but all that happens is that everybody on them who has an unusual name (and is thus easily traceable) and e.g. runs a business etc is called John Smith 
Loads of people on the Socata owners’ group have made-up names.
The ones where you can’t do that are ones where you have to pay with a credit card… I used to hate that about the old (and thankfully long gone) Compu$erve where if you posted anything controversial you would get repercussions. I recall a debate on ISO9000 after which some pompous ISO9000 dick tried to get my ISO registration re-audited… thankfully I didn’t have one
Forums where people really have to use full names are useless except for totally banal stuff. And if they are “private” that changes nothing because anybody can join up, read past postings, and threaten legal action. Seen that too… happened on one well known UK “private forum”.
Silvaire wrote:
The EAA in the U.S. is a club having no regulatory role whatsoever.
I know that. That’s how it is most places. Experimental are handled by the authorities. In practice there is always some organisation there, so the difference for most builders is mostly academic. It’s when the plane is finished that the oddeties of a system such as the LAA (apparently) becomes an issue in certain circumstances.
Obviously such a system can never work satisfactory except within single countries, whereas a system where the CAA manages things have no such problems.
If you’ve posted on the LAA forum then you will of course have had to use your real name and not a pseudonym…………
Please be aware, that there are also non native Speakers who may want to keep a PTF-aircraft abroad. It’s easy for an LAA-inspector to identify them
I’ve posted on the LAA forum and am curious about answers (if there will be any…..)
Not if you fly the aircraft to the engineer/inspector.
You fly it there. He knows that you have you two places. That you live mainly in Germany but have a “summer house” in the UK. You use the “Summer House” as the mailing address (which in actual fact is a mail forwarding company).
He’s no reason to think any different. In fact he’s very unlikely to ask you much about where you live at all….just where to send the invoice to!
No one needs to know you liver permanently outside the UK. If you really want to complete the puzzle, get a UK phone number too ;)
